Brief Life History of Ira
When Ira Whittier was born on 15 August 1803, in Newport, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Thomas N Whittier, was 45 and his mother, Elizabeth Eastman, was 41.
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1804
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
1804 · The Twelfth Amendment
With not having a very clear statement in the Constitution about Presidents and Vice Presidents, the Twelfth Amendment was Born. Before the Electoral College could cast two votes for those that they saw fit for President. This was changed to just one electoral vote for President and one electoral vote for Vice President. With the amount of people even allowed to vote, there was no way for there to be a tie during the elections.
1808 · Concord Becomes the Capital
In 1808, Concord became the capital of New Hampshire. It was originally the Penacook Plantation given to the state by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a dresser of white leather, someone who tawed skins into whitleather, from Middle English whīt ‘white’ + tawyere, towyere, tewere, an agent noun from West Saxon Old English tāwian, Anglian tēwian ‘to taw’.
History: John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–92), poet and active opponent of slavery, was descended from Thomas Whittier, who came to MA from England in 1638.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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