When Hiram Augustus Kemp was born on 11 April 1810, in Dublin, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Levi KEMP, was 37 and his mother, Jerusha Wyman, was 34. He married Mary Peaslee on 17 July 1836, in Whitefield, Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States for about 30 years. He died on 22 February 1903, in Winchester, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Wildwood Cemetery, Winchester, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
In 1833, the oldest tax-supported public library in the world was established by Reverend Abiel Abbot.
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
English, Scottish, Dutch, and North German: status name for a champion, Middle English and Middle Low German kempe. In the Middle Ages a champion was a professional fighter on behalf of others; for example the King's Champion, at the coronation, had the duty of issuing a general challenge to battle to anyone who denied the king's right to the throne. The Middle English word corresponds to Old English cempa and Old Norse kempa ‘warrior’; both these go back to ancient Germanic campo ‘warrior’, which is the source of the Dutch and North German name, corresponding to High German Kampf .
Dutch and North German (North Rhine-Westphalia): from the personal name Kempe, Kampe; see 1 above.
Dutch and Flemish: metonymic occupational name for someone who grew or processed hemp, from Middle Dutch canep ‘hemp’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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