Brief Life History of Thomas
Thomas Kenton was born in 1819, in Ohio, United States.
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1820 · Making States Equal
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.
1836 · Kirtland Temple Dedicated
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places so named, for example in Devon, Greater London (formerly Middlesex), Northumberland and Suffolk. All have as the second element Old English tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’. The first element of the place in Devon is a pre-English river name; the place in London is named with the Old English personal name Cēna; the place in Northumberland derives from Old English cyne ‘kingly, royal’ or cyng ‘king’ + tūn; and the place in Suffolk is named either with Cēna or more probably with Old English cyne- ‘royal’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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