Brief Life History of Mary Ellen
When Mary Ellen Perry was born in 1844, in Centerville, Montgomery, Ohio, United States, her father, Joshua Perry, was 49 and her mother, Nancy Powers, was 48. She married Richard V Largent on 24 October 1868, in Worth, Missouri, United States. She lived in Jefferson Township, Johnson, Iowa, United States in 1870 and Gentry, Missouri, United States in 1891.
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- Mary E Perry in household of Joshua Perry, "United States Census, 1850"
- Mary E Largen, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Mary Largent in household of James Strang, "United States Census, 1870"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
Iowa is the 29th state.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Herry ‘son of Herry’, a variant of the personal name Harry (see Harris ).
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a pear tree (Middle English piri(e), peri(e), puri(e), Old English pirige, pyrige), or a habitational name for someone who owned or came from a place so named. This surname and a number of variants have been established in Ireland since the 17th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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