When Alfred Charles or Ard Brush was born in 1812, in New Jersey, United States, his father, Edward Brush, was 40 and his mother, Margaret Woolley, was 26. He married Elizabeth Clevenger on 31 March 1836, in Champaign, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Urbana Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States in 1860 and Ohio, United States in 1870. He died on 6 February 1876, in Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
On January 28, 1820, the New Jersey Legislature incorporated the City of Jersey from parts of the Bergen Township. The city would be reincorporated two more times (January 23, 1829 and February 22, 1838) before receiving its official name. Jersey City became part of the new Hudson County in February of 1840.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
English: metonymic occupational name for a brush maker, from Middle English brush ‘brush’ (Old French brosse ‘brushwood’).
Americanized form of German Brusch or Brüsch ‘heather, broom, brushwood’ (see Bruesch ).
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