When Mary Jane Wolfe was born on 18 September 1838, in Ohio, United States, her father, John Wolf, was 34 and her mother, Jane - Elizabeth Cannon-Gannon, was 32. She married Jesse R. Newell on 10 April 1855, in Hubbard, Trumbull, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Barkhamsted, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States in 1860 and Connecticut, United States in 1870. She died on 30 May 1910, in Hubbard, Trumbull, Ohio, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Wolf and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this. This is also a common spelling in Ireland (see also Woulfe ), particularly in counties Cork and Limerick, while in Germany this surname is very rare.
Americanized form of various other surnames meaning ‘wolf’, e.g. Hungarian Farkas , Czech and Slovak Vlk , Slovenian and other Slavic Volk , Vovk , and Vuk (see Wolf ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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