When Aaron Woodring was born in October 1819, in Whitehall Township, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Samuel Woodring III, was 38 and his mother, Maria Elisabeth George, was 41. He married Margaret Rachel Halderman about 1850, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 9 daughters. He lived in Tyrone Township, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and Warriors Mark, Warriors Mark Township, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. In 1850, at the age of 31, his occupation is listed as farmer. He died on 20 September 1897, in Warriors Mark Township, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Port Matilda Presbyterian Cemetery, Port Matilda, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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.
"The United States law requiring full payment at the time of purchase and registration of any land. to help encourage sales and make land more affordable, Congress reduced the minimum price of dollar per acre and the minimum size that could be purchased. Most of this land for sale was located on the frontier which was then ""The West"". This Act was good for many Americans, but it was also over used by wealthy investors."
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Altered form of Wotring (via the intermediate form Wootring), a surname of French origin (see Vautrin ).
History: The Woodrings are descendants of Abraham Vautrin, Jr, a Huguenot from Lorraine, France, and his relatives (see Wotring ).
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