When Christiana Long was born from 1788 to 1797, in Rowan, North Carolina, United States, her father, Thomas Long, was 48 and her mother, Anna Catherine Hege, was 45. She married Michael Sowers on 4 October 1815, in Rowan, Bladen, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died after 1839, in Wallace, Jackson Township, Fountain, Indiana, United States.
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The First Presidential election was held in the newly created United States of America. Under the Articles of Confederation, the executive branch of the country was not set up for an individual to help lead the nation. So, under the United States Constitution they position was put in. Because of his prominent roles during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was voted in unanimously as the First President of the United States.
Historical Boundaries: 1832: Fountain, Indiana, United States
English and French: nickname for a tall person, from Old English lang, long, Old French long ‘long, tall’ (equivalent to Latin longus). Compare Dulong and Lelong .
Irish (Ulster and Munster): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Longáin (see Langan ).
German: variant of Lang ‘long’ and, in North America, also an altered form (translation into English) of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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