Brief Life History of Allen
When Allen Mansfield was born on 25 March 1844, in Fayette City, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Edward Mansfield, was 40 and his mother, Charlotte Woodward, was 37. He married Emily McCrory on 3 July 1869. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 13 April 1925, in Charleroi, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Fayette City, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Allen Mansfield, "United States Census, 1860"
- Allen S Mansfield, "Find a Grave Index"
- Allen Mansfield, "United States Census, 1870"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place so named in Nottinghamshire. The placename means ‘open land by the river Maun’, from the river name Maun (which may take its name from a hill named with Old English mamme ‘teat’) + Old English feld ‘open country’.
Irish (Waterford): when not an importation of 1, this is an altered form of the Norman name de Manville (see Mandeville 3).
Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Mansfeld, a habitational name from a place so called in Saxony.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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