When Hannah Cowden was born about 1789, in Rutland, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, James Simpson Cowden, was 34 and her mother, Persis Goodenow, was 20. She married Ephraim Childs on 20 July 1811, in Rutland, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Hubbardston, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States for about 10 years. She died on 2 June 1871, in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Princeton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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The First Presidential election was held in the newly created United States of America. Under the Articles of Confederation, the executive branch of the country was not set up for an individual to help lead the nation. So, under the United States Constitution they position was put in. Because of his prominent roles during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was voted in unanimously as the First President of the United States.
George Washington elected first president of United States.
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Scottish: habitational name from Cowden in Dalkeith (Midlothian), and any of several other places in Scotland called Cowden.
English: habitational name from one or more of the places so named, such as Cowden in Mayfield, Cowden in Wartling, and Cowden Hall in Heathfield (all in Sussex), Cowden (Kent, Northumberland, and Yorkshire), and Green Cowden in Bakewell (Derbyshire). The surname is more or less restricted to northern England, and is also found in northern Ireland, where it may be of Scottish origin.
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