When Rachael McClain was born in 1820, in Shelby, Kentucky, United States, her father, Thomas McClain, was 30 and her mother, Elizabeth Gray, was 28. She married Hezekiah Briscoe on 2 February 1841. They were the parents of at least 2 sons.
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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.
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
Scottish and Manx: variant of McLean .
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