Brief Life History of Nathan White
When Nathan White Lear was born on 11 October 1828, in New Castle, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Nathaniel Lear, was 36 and his mother, Mary White, was 33. He married Sarah Elizabeth White on 2 June 1850, in New Castle, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in New Hampshire, United States in 1870. He died on 14 January 1912, in Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in New Castle, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States.
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- Nathan O Lear, "United States Census, 1860"
- Nathan W Lear, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
- Nathan W. Lear, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1833 · First Public Library Founded in Petersborough
In 1833, the oldest tax-supported public library in the world was established by Reverend Abiel Abbot.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English ler ‘cheek, face, countenance, complexion’ (Old English hlēor), used adjectivally to mean ‘beautiful of face’.
English: variant of Layer .
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Uidhir ‘son of the swarthy lad’ or ‘son of the servant of Odhar’, a byname from odhar (genitive uidhir) ‘dun-colored’, ‘weatherbeaten’. Compare McAleer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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