When Ellen Theresa. Whitney was born on 19 February 1820, in Browntown, Pittston Township, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Dr. Elisha Whitney, was 22 and her mother, Sarah Brown, was 17. She married Daniel M Coolbaugh on 13 December 1837, in Wysox, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in St. Anthony, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States in 1885 and Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico, United States in 1900. She died on 19 March 1901, in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States.
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A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
1837: Fayette, Wisconsin Territory, United States 1838: Fayette, Iowa Territory, United States 1843: Iowa Territory, Untied States 1846: Unorganized Federal Territory, United States 1849: Minnesota Territory, United States 1849: Dakota, Minnesota Territory, United States 1852: Hennepin, Minnesota Territory, United States 1858: Hennepin, Minnesota, United States
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English: habitational name from Whitney in Herefordshire, the etymology of which is uncertain. The second element is Old English ēg ‘island, piece of higher ground in a low-lying area’; the first appears to be hwītan, which is either the genitive singular of an Old English byname Hwīta (meaning ‘white’), or the weak dative case (originally used after a preposition and article) of the adjective hwīt ‘white’. The name may also derive from Whitney (now Whitney Wood) in Stevenage (Hertfordshire), probably named from Old English hwītan ‘white’ + (ge)hæge ‘enclosure’.
History: John Whitney came from London, England, to Watertown, MA, in 1635, and had numerous prominent descendents.
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