Brief Life History of John
When John Wallace was born on 4 November 1801, in Bethel, Windsor, Vermont, United States, his father, John C Wallace, was 51 and his mother, Elizabeth Wight, was 36. He married Mary Ann Wheeler about 1826, in Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 12 December 1872, in Vermont, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Cherry Hill Cemetery, Bethel, Windsor, Vermont, United States.
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- John Wallace, "United States Census, 1850"
- John Wallace, "Find A Grave Index"
- John Wallace, "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005"
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1803 · The U.S doubles in size
The United States purchased all the Louisiana territory (828,000 sq. mi) from France, only paying 15 million dollars (A quarter trillion today) for the land. In the purchase, the US obtained the land that makes up 15 US states and 2 Canadian Provinces. The United States originally wanted to purchase of New Orleans and the lands located on the coast around it, but quickly accepted the bargain that Napoleon Bonaparte offered.
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English: variant of Wallis , especially in Scotland, where the name was introduced from the Welsh Marches by a family of tenants of the Stewarts in the 12th century.
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish (Ashkenazic) surnames, e.g. Wallach .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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