When Jane Wilson was born on 28 August 1809, in Ireland, her father, John Wilson, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Patterson, was 20. She married Michael Gulliver Main Sr. about 1824, in Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Daugherty Township, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860. She died on 16 March 1898, in North Sewickley Township, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 88.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
English: from the Middle English personal name Will + patronymic -son ‘son of Will’. Will was a very common medieval short form of William . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
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