Brief Life History of Daniel
When Daniel Herring was born on 9 September 1818, in Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, George Washington Herring Sr, was 27 and his mother, Sarah "Anna" Sell, was 20. He married Sarah M Lenhart on 23 April 1848, in Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 10 daughters. He lived in Addison, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880 and Somerfield, Addison Township, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. He died on 6 February 1906, in Connellsville, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Somerfield, Addison Township, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Daniel Herring, "United States Census, 1850"
- Daniel Herring, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999"
- Daniel Herring, "Find A Grave Index"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
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.
1820 · Making States Equal
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.
1844 · Lumpkin's Jail
In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
Name Meaning
English (London), Dutch, and German: metonymic occupational name for a herring fisher or for a seller of the fish, or perhaps for someone who habitually ate herring, from Middle English hering (Old English hǣring, hēring), Dutch haring, Middle High German hærinc. In some cases it may have been a nickname in the sense of a trifle, something of little value, a meaning which is found in medieval phrases and proverbial expressions such as ‘to like neither herring nor barrel’, i.e. not to like something at all.
German: habitational name from Herringen in Westphalia.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Hering .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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