When Thomas Truxton Swena was born on 27 December 1805, in Phelps, Phelps, Ontario, New York, United States, his father, Benjamin Swena III, was 26 and his mother, Mary "Polly" Ball, was 22. He married Jane Emalene Blakeslee on 20 August 1829, in Meadville, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Pine Creek Township, Ogle, Illinois, United States in 1850. He died on 6 November 1860, in Gilpin, Colorado, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Gilpin, Gilpin, Colorado, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Illinois is the 21st state.
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.
Some characteristic forenames: Italian Angelo, Carmelo, Giuseppe, Salvatore.
Italian (mainly Tuscany): habitational name from the Tuscan city of Siena.
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