When John Wells Bicknell Sr. was born on 23 September 1819, in North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Benjamin Bicknell, was 19 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Wells, was 21. He married Flora Whitter Tracy on 13 April 1870, in North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Kingston, South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States in 1905. He died on 21 August 1913, in North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Elm Grove Cemetery, North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States.
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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.
The Dorr Rebellion, led by Thomas Wilson Dorr, took place from 1841 until 1842. During the Rebellion, the middle-class residents of Rhode Island attempted to force broader democracy to the state legislation.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English: habitational name from Bickenhill in Warwickshire, Bickenhall in Somerset or Bignell in Oxfordshire. The former two are named with the Old English personal name Bicca + Old English hyll ‘hill’, but in the Somerset name the final element alternates with Old English h(e)all ‘hall’. Bignell is named with the Old English personal name Biga + hyll ‘hill’. Compare Bignell .
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