Brief Life History of Stephen Landers
When Stephen Landers Wing was born on 26 April 1801, in Township E, Franklin, Maine, United States, his father, Reuben Wing Jr., was 25 and his mother, Joanna Landers, was 21. He married Louisa H Prescott on 3 September 1822, in Wayne, Kennebec, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Franklin Plantation, Oxford, Maine, United States for about 10 years and Leeds, Androscoggin, Maine, United States in 1870. He died on 26 October 1872, in Peru, Oxford, Maine, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Peru, Oxford, Maine, United States.
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- Stephen L Wing, "United States Census, 1870"
- Stphen L. Wing, "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
- Stphen L. Wing, "Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907"
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1805
Historical Boundaries: 1805: Oxford, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Oxford, Maine, United States
1820 · Making States Equal
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.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Weng (Old West Scandinavian Wenge, perhaps originally a nickname from vengi ‘pillow, cushion’).
English and Scottish: habitational name from either Wing in Buckinghamshire or Wing in Rutland. The Buckinghamshire placename probably means ‘the people of Wiwa’, from an Old English personal name Wiwa + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas. The Rutland placename and probably derives from Old Norse vengi ‘field’.
Chinese: Cantonese form of the surname 榮, see Rong 4.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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