When Joel Doane was born in 1815, in Massachusetts, United States, his father, Capt Lott Doane, was 27 and his mother, Elizabeth Mayo, was 30. He married Eliza Forbush on 11 November 1837, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in Phillipston, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States for about 10 years. He died on 14 April 1891, in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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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.
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.
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.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dubháin ‘descendant of Dubhán’, meaning ‘the little black one’, a common name in the 16th century in southern Ireland, or Ó Damháin ‘descendant of Damhán’ meaning ‘fawn, little stag’, a rare Ulster name. See also Devine .
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