When Oliver Goff Garrison was born in June 1819, in Indiana, United States, his father, Samuel Garrison, was 38 and his mother, Hannah Applegate Goff, was 32. He married Margaret Elizabeth Foster on 25 September 1859, in DeKalb, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 7 daughters. He lived in Camden Township, DeKalb, Missouri, United States for about 3 years and Stewartsville, DeKalb, Missouri, United States in 1870. He died on 27 July 1892, in Spring Township, Butler, Kansas, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Garrison Cemetery, Butler, Kansas, 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.
Historical Boundaries 1834: Madison, Indiana, United States
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English: from a shortened form of Middle English Gerardson, a patronymic from the personal name Gerard + son, or an Anglicized form of its Dutch cognate Gerritsen . The English surname is probably in most cases of Flemish or Dutch origin. It was brought to Britain by immigrants from the Low Countries, especially in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Americanized form of Jewish Gerson (see Gershon ).
Americanized form of Dutch Gerritsen .
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