When Caroline Whitney was born on 23 February 1803, in West Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Joshua Whitney, was 26 and her mother, Eunice Clark, was 29. She married Ira Belden on 27 August 1824, in Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Batavia Township, Kane, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Aurora, Kane, Illinois, United States in 1870. She died on 8 February 1880, at the age of 76.
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Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
Illinois is the 21st state.
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
English: habitational name from Whitney in Herefordshire, the etymology of which is uncertain. The second element is Old English ēg ‘island, piece of higher ground in a low-lying area’; the first appears to be hwītan, which is either the genitive singular of an Old English byname Hwīta (meaning ‘white’), or the weak dative case (originally used after a preposition and article) of the adjective hwīt ‘white’. The name may also derive from Whitney (now Whitney Wood) in Stevenage (Hertfordshire), probably named from Old English hwītan ‘white’ + (ge)hæge ‘enclosure’.
History: John Whitney came from London, England, to Watertown, MA, in 1635, and had numerous prominent descendents.
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