When Gov. Robert Charles Wickliffe Sr. was born on 6 January 1819, in Bardstown, Nelson, Kentucky, United States, his father, Gov. Charles Anderson Wickliffe Sr., was 30 and his mother, Margaret Crepps, was 30. He married Ann Ruffin Dawson on 28 February 1843, in District of Columbia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Nelson, Kentucky, United States in 1850 and West Feliciana, Louisiana, United States in 1860. In 1856, his occupation is listed as governor of louisiana in Louisiana, United States. He died on 18 April 1895, in Shelbyville, Shelby, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Bardstown City Cemetery, Bardstown, Nelson, Kentucky, 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 Louisville and Portland canal opened in 1830. It was a 2 mile canal. It helped with the barrier caused by the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville by making a route around them.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English: habitational name from Wycliffe, a place in Durham, situated on a bend in the Tees, and probably named from Old English hwīt ‘white’ or wiht ‘bend’ + clif ‘slope’, ‘bank’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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