When Catharine "Kitty" Shoup was born about 1787, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Joseph Shoup, was 26 and her mother, Mary Magdelena Dilts, was 21. She married John B. Dilsaver on 4 June 1808, in Fairfield, Ohio, United States. She died on 26 September 1821, in Delaware, Ohio, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Bokes Creek Cemetery, Millville, Delaware, Ohio, United States.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
On December 12, 1787, Pennsylvania ratified the U.S. Constitution.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
Americanized form of Flemish Schoup, a metonymic occupational name for a maker of ladles, from Middle Dutch schoepe, schope, schuep ‘ladle’.
Americanized form of German Schaub .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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