When Melville Harvey Boggs was born in 1845, in Clay Township, Knox, Ohio, United States, his father, Alexander M Boggs, was 25 and his mother, Charity Conwell, was 23. He lived in Marion Township, Allen, Indiana, United States in 1860 and Indiana, United States in 1870. He died on 11 June 1876, at the age of 31.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
In 1848, by state legislative action, Knox County lost 3 western townships, South Bloomfield, Chester and Franklin, to Morrow County, leaving Hilliar as the lone original western township.
The town of Santa Fe was denied their application for a United States Postal Service as a town of Santa Fe, Indiana, was already established. Several meetings were held and the name was changed to Santa Claus, Indiana. The United States Postal Service granted their application. Due to the name, the post office in Santa Claus continues to receive thousands of letters to Santa Claus from children around the world each December.
English: nickname from Middle English bogeys ‘boastful or haughty’. The name (in the forms Boge(y)s, Boga(y)s) is found in the 12th century in Yorkshire and East Anglia, and also around Bordeaux, which had trading links with East Anglia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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