When Harrison Harvick was born on 12 February 1829, in Johnson, Illinois, United States, his father, Martin Peter Harvick, was 36 and his mother, Nancy Mary Fisher, was 21. He married Mary "Catherine" Clay on 9 April 1854, in Columbus Township, Adams, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Illinois, United States in 1870 and Vienna, Johnson, Illinois, United States for about 20 years. He died on 2 May 1905, in Johnson, Illinois, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Johnson, Illinois, United States.
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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.
"The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the ""British Band"", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis."
William Rand opened a small printing shop in Chicago. Doing most of the work himself for the first two years he decided to hire some help. Rand Hired Andrew McNally, an Irish Immigrant, to work in his shop. After doing business with the Chicago Tribune, Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. Years later, Rand and McNally established Rand McNally & Co after purchasing the Tribune's printing business. They focused mainly on printing tickets, complete railroad guides and timetables for the booming railroad industry around the city. What made the company successful was the detailed maps of roadways, along with directions to certain places. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways and erected many of the roadside highway signs that have been adopted by state and federal highway authorities. The company is still making and updating the world maps that are looked at every day.
Possibly an Americanized form of German Harwig, avariant of Herwig and Hartwig , or of Harwick .
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