When Owen Churchman was born on 14 October 1785, in East Nottingham Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Edward Churchman, was 28 and his mother, Rebecca Peirce, was 19. He married Mary Pennell on 25 December 1807, in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in New York City, New York County, New York, United States for about 5 years and Kings, New York, United States in 1860. He died on 4 March 1867, in New York, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Friends Quaker Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States.
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On December 12, 1787, Pennsylvania ratified the U.S. Constitution.
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Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
English: from Middle English chirch(e)man ‘clergyman; churchwarden; lay official responsible for church finances’. The earliest examples would have denoted a custodian or keeper of a church (Old English cyriceman), not a clergyman, though the earlier sense had probably been superseded by the time the surname arose.
Possibly an Americanized form (translation into English) of German Kirchmann (see Kirchman ).
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