When Jonathan Swingle was born on 1 February 1813, in South Canaan, South Canaan Township, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Conrad Swingle, was 46 and his mother, Lucy Bunting, was 36. He married Phebe Coss about 1836, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Jefferson Township, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. He died on 4 December 1888, in South Canaan, South Canaan Township, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in South Canaan, South Canaan Township, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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.
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.
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
English: probably a variant of Swinger with r/l substitution.
Possibly an Americanized form of German Zwingel, a topographic name from Middle High German zwingel ‘citadel’.
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