When Valentine "Felty" Whitmer was born on 26 October 1787, in Rockingham, Virginia, United States, his father, Johannes "John" Whitmer, was 36 and his mother, Catherine Valda Tarwater, was 26. He married Sarah Scott on 12 April 1812, in Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States in 1850. He died on 15 September 1855, in Bremen, Logan, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Scott Cemetery, Bremen, Logan, Kentucky, United States.
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The First Presidential election was held in the newly created United States of America. Under the Articles of Confederation, the executive branch of the country was not set up for an individual to help lead the nation. So, under the United States Constitution they position was put in. Because of his prominent roles during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was voted in unanimously as the First President of the United States.
Historical Boundaries 1795: Logan, Kentucky, United States 1797: Christian, Kentucky, United States 1799: Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English: variant of Whitmore .
Americanized form of German Wittmeyer or of Wittmer .
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