When Catherine Clemens was born on 1 June 1817, in Consdorf, Echternach, Luxembourg, her father, Mathias Clemens, was 38 and her mother, Margaretha WELTER, was 36. She married Peter Finneman Sr. on 2 February 1842, in Consdorf, Echternach, Luxembourg. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 1 September 1877, in Mazeppa, Wabasha, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Mazeppa, Wabasha, Minnesota, United States.
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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 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.
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
English (Cornwall): variant of Clemence or Clement .
German, Dutch, and Danish: from the personal name Clemens (see Clement ).
In some cases also an Americanized form of Slovenian patronymics Klemenc (see Klements ) and Klemenčič or of Croatian Klemenčić (see Klemencic ). Compare Klemens .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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