When Andrew Jackson Raisor was born on 17 January 1826, in Kentucky, United States, his father, Alfred Raisor, was 15 and his mother, Rachel Wainscott, was 26. He married Elizabeth Wainscott on 22 July 1847, in Owen, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 1, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1860 and Coal Creek Township, Montgomery, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. He died on 7 May 1887, in Montgomery, Indiana, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in New Richmond, Coal Creek Township, Montgomery, Indiana, United States.
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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.
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.
Perhaps an altered form of English Rasor , or of German Reiser or Röser (see Rosser ).
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