Brief Life History of Christopher Edelen
When Christopher Edelen Hagan was born in 1795, in Maryland, United States, his father, Ignatius Hagan, was 25 and his mother, Elizabeth Edelen, was 38. He married Mary Ann Montgomery on 23 June 1816, in Washington, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Washington, Kentucky, United States in 1820. He died in 1839, in Maryland, United States, at the age of 44.
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- Christopher Hagen, "United States Census, 1820"
- Christopher Haggen, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Christopher Haggen, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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1796 · Wilderness Road Opens to Wagons
In 1796, the Wilderness Road opened up for wagon use. The route was used by colonial and early settlers to reach Kentucky from the East. It started in Virginia, and went southward to Tennessee and then went north to Kentucky. The main danger of this route was Native American attacks.
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
Irish (Tyrone, Armagh, and Derry): shortened Anglicized form of O'Hagan , from Gaelic Ó hÁgáin ‘descendant of Ógán’, a personal name from a diminutive of óg ‘young’. Compare Hogan .
English: from the Middle English personal name Hagan, or Hagen, mostly representing Old Danish Haghni or Old Norse Hǫgni ‘protector, patron’, especially in Norfolk, where the name is well attested in the 12th- and early 13th-centuries. It may have been reinforced by Norman use of ancient Germanic Hagano, Hageno, Hagino, but there is no certain evidence for this in Anglo-Norman England. In Norfolk the name was confused with the Middle English personal name Hakun. It also developed to Hane and Hayne (see Hain ).
English: variant of Hacon with voicing of the intervocalic consonant, from the Middle English personal name Hacun (Old Norse Hákun, from ancient northern Germanic elements meaning ‘horse’ + ‘kindred’). Hacon is found mainly in Norfolk and Suffolk.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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