Brief Life History of Anna Krout
When Anna Krout Kolb was born on 2 November 1811, in Coventry Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Isaac Johnson Kolb, was 23 and her mother, Maria Krout, was 23. She married Henry Harley on 9 November 1834, in Skippack, Skippack Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 1 March 1878, in Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Skippack, Skippack Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Ann Harley in household of Henry Harley, "United States Census, 1860"
- Anna Harley, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999"
- Anna Kolp, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Marriage Records, 1512-1989"
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Name Meaning
German: nickname from Middle High German kolbe ‘mace’ or ‘cudgel’, which was both a weapon and part of an official's insignia, in some cases the insignia of a jester; or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house named with this word. In Silesia the term denoted a shock of hair or a shorn head. Compare Kulp .
History: Dielman Kolb (1691–1756), a Mennonite preacher who arrived in America in 1717 and assisted Swiss and German emigration to America, was born in the Palatinate, Germany, and migrated to PA, following two of his brothers (Martin, John, and Jacob, who came to PA in 1707, and Henry, who came in 1709) who were also Mennonite preachers. Some of the family, which is probably of ultimate Swiss origin, settled in Germantown, PA. Among the Mennonites in the US the name Kolb is also commonly found in the altered forms Kulp and Culp .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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