When James William Arbuckle was born about 1798, in Washington, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Joseph Alexander Arbuckle, was 39 and his mother, Sarah Sterrett, was 34. He married Jane Tripp on 24 November 1859, in Carroll, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died in 1883, in Jackson Township, Guernsey, Ohio, United States, at the age of 86.
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While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Scottish: habitational name from Arbuckle (earlier Arnbuckle) in the parish of Airdrie, Lanarkshire, named in Gaelic as earrann buachaille ‘herdsman's portion (of land)’.
History: Captain Matthew Arbuckle (1741–81) was a prominent VA frontiersman.
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