William Lounsbury

Brief Life History of William

When William Lounsbury was born on 3 September 1818, in Lewis Mountain, Salisbury, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, William Lounsbury, Jr., was 39 and his mother, Grace Elizabeth Gray, was 35. He married Mary Eleanor Ellen Hopper on 22 April 1841, in New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Bourbon, Kansas, United States in 1860 and Osage Township, Bourbon, Kansas, United States for about 10 years. He died in January 1903, in Prescott, Linn, Kansas, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Prescott, Linn, Kansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Lounsbury
1818–1903
Mary Eleanor Ellen Hopper
1821–1904
Marriage: 22 April 1841
Amanda Ann Lounsbury
1842–1916
Grace Elizabeth Lounsbury
1844–1928
Nehemiah Lounsbury
1846–1938
Isaiah Lounsbury
1848–1877
William H Lounsbury
1849–1865
James Mack Lounsbury
1852–1928
Almira Jane Lounsbury
1854–1939
Michael John Lounsbury
1856–1950
George Allen Lounsbury
1858–1946
Benjamin Franklin Lounsbury
1861–1908
Thomas Grant Lounsbury
1863–1918
Andrew Johnson Lounsbury
1865–1937

Sources (11)

  • William Lansbery, "United States Census, 1860"
  • William Lounsbury Or Lounsburry, "New Brunswick Provincial Marriages 1789-1950"
  • William Lounsbury in entry for Andrew Johnson Lounsbury, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"

World Events (8)

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1820 · Making States Equal

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.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

Name Meaning

English: probably an altered form of Lownsbrough, a habitational name from Londesborough in the East Yorkshire, which is named with the Old Norse personal name Lothinn + Old English burh ‘stronghold’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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