When Jacob J Main Sr was born on 3 April 1806, in North Sewickley Township, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Nicholas Main Sr, was 22 and his mother, Nancy Nye, was 24. He married Sarah Jane Wilson before 1830, in North Sewickley Township, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 3 December 1886, in North Sewickley Township, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 80.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
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.
Scottish: from a shortened form of the Scandinavian personal name Magnus , which in Older Scots became Manus and Mane.
English (of Norman origin) and French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Ma(g)ino, Meino, from magan ‘strength, might’.
English (of Norman origin): nickname for a large man, from Old French magne, maine ‘great, big’.
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