When Levi Swingle was born on 18 February 1808, in South Canaan, South Canaan Township, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Frederick John Swingle, was 28 and his mother, Susan Enslin, was 28. He had at least 3 sons and 4 daughters with Irena Jane Wright. He lived in Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and Lake Township, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. He died on 14 January 1892, in South Canaan, South Canaan Township, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 83.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
English: probably a variant of Swinger with r/l substitution.
Possibly an Americanized form of German Zwingel, a topographic name from Middle High German zwingel ‘citadel’.
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