When Miles Morgan Sheldon was born on 19 May 1819, in Charlotte, Chittenden, Vermont, United States, his father, Erastus Sheldon, was 33 and his mother, Lois Elizabeth Morgan, was 26. He married Betsey Caroline Crouch on 8 December 1840, in Shelburne, Chittenden, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Massena, St. Lawrence, New York, United States in 1860 and Kendallville, Wayne Township, Noble, Indiana, United States in 1870. He died on 14 May 1899, in Wells, Faribault, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Wells, Faribault, Minnesota, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1833: Indiana, United States 1835: Noble, Indiana, United States
The State of Indiana was near bankruptcy in 1841 due to the inability to repay interest incurred for the Massive Internal Improvement Act. The state liquidated much of its public works. Many of the projects were handed over to the state’s creditors as a way to reduce debt. Only two of the eight proposed infrastructure projects were completed by the creditors.
English: habitational name in most cases from Sheldon in Derbyshire, but sometimes from Sheldon in Warwickshire or Devon, or from Sheldon in Chippenham (Wiltshire). The Derbyshire place, recorded in Domesday Book as Scelhadun, probably takes its name from Old English scelf ‘rock, ledge, shelf’ + the placename Haddon, itself from Old English hǣth ‘heath’ + dūn ‘hill’. The Warwickshire and Wiltshire placenames probably derive from Old English scelf + dūn, while the Devon placename probably comes from Old English scelf + denu ‘valley’.
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