When Eden Whitcomb was born on 30 September 1813, in Massachusetts, United States, his father, Nathaniel K Whitcomb, was 34 and his mother, Emma Piper, was 33. He married Esther Caroline Sheldon on 30 November 1834, in Monroe, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Wauconda, Lake, Illinois, United States for about 20 years. He died on 5 April 1881, at the age of 67, and was buried in Wauconda, Lake, Illinois, United States.
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Illinois is the 21st state.
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.
"The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the ""British Band"", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis."
English: habitational name from any of various places called Whitcombe or Witcombe. Whitcombe in Dorset and Witcombe in Gloucestershire are named with Old English wīd ‘wide’ + cumb ‘valley’; Whitcombe, Isle of Wight, may have the same etymology or alternatively the first element may be Old English hwīt ‘white’. Witcombe in Somerset is named with Old English wīthig ‘willow’ + cumb, and the placename Whitcombe in Devon is from Old English hwǣte ‘wheat’ + cumb. The surname may also derive from a lost place in Sussex.
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