When Reuben Gregg was born on 31 July 1828, in Waterbury, Washington, Vermont, United States, his father, Leslie Gregg, was 41 and his mother, Sarah Austin, was 43. He married Matilda Rockefeller on 4 May 1856, in Valatie, Kinderhook, Columbia, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Wyandotte, Kansas, United States in 1895 and Ohio Township, Franklin, Kansas, United States in 1900. He died on 23 September 1909, in Princeton, Franklin, Kansas, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Princeton, Franklin, Kansas, United States.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the "British Band", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis.
Bleeding Kansas was a time period between the years 1854 and 1861 with a series of violent confrontations over whether slavery would be legal in Kansas Territory.
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): from the Middle English personal name Greg, a pet form of Gregory ; compare Grigg .
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