When Elisha Hollister was born on 25 November 1786, in Chatham, Ghent, Columbia, New York, United States, his father, Elisha Hollister, was 29 and his mother, Jane Thompson, was 25. He married Demis Jones on 4 February 1819, in United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 13 December 1845, at the age of 59.
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The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
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English (Gloucestershire): nickname from a derivative of Old French holier ‘adulterer, lecher’. Compare Hollier .
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