Brief Life History of Leverett Baker
When Leverett Baker Stowe was born in 1813, in Dover, Dutchess, New York, United States, his father, Eliakim Stowe, was 45 and his mother, Deborah MAXIM, was 24. He married Amanda Burtis Hume on 4 November 1843, in Madison, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He died in 1849, at the age of 36.
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- Heverett B. Stow in entry for Laura Hart Knaggs, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Leverett B. Stow in entry for Lucy Hume Biddle, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Leverett B Stow in entry for Lucy Hume Biddle, "Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1994"
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World Events (7)
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.
1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called Stow or Stowe, all named with Old English stow ‘place, holy place, assembly place’ (a word akin to stoc; see Stoke ). In a few cases the surname appears to be topographic, denoting someone who lived by a church or monastery, from Middle English stow(e) ‘holy place, church, monastery’. Places in Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, and Staffordshire having this origin use the spelling Stowe, but the spelling difference cannot be relied on as an indication of locality of origin. The final -e in part represents a trace of the Old English dative inflection.
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 司徒, see Situ .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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