Brief Life History of Samuel H
When Samuel H Banks was born on 31 January 1820, in Kemptville, Oxford-on-Rideau Township, Grenville, Upper Canada, British North America, his father, Israel Banks, was 39 and his mother, Martha Patty Lewis, was 40. He married Chloe Clothier on 26 March 1845, in Canada. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Glenwood Township, Webster, Nebraska, United States for about 15 years and Davenport, Thayer, Nebraska, United States in 1910. He died on 21 August 1910, in Blue Hill, Webster, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Blue Hill, Webster, Nebraska, United States.
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- Samuel Banks, "Nebraska State Census, 1885"
- Samuel Banks, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Samuel H Banks, "Find A Grave Index"
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1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
1836
Historical Boundaries: 1836: Ogle, Illinois, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Bank 5, with excrescent -s. The final -s may occasionally represent a plural form, but it is most commonly an arbitrary addition made after the main period of surname formation, perhaps under the influence of patronymic forms with a possessive -s.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Bruacháin ‘descendant of Bruachán’, a byname for a large-bellied person. The English form was chosen because of a mistaken association of the Gaelic name with bruach ‘bank’. Compare Bank 6.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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