When Joseph W. Satterthwaite was born on 7 November 1823, in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Richard Satterthwaite, was 38 and his mother, Rebecca Wright, was 33. He married Margaret Ann Armstrong on 20 October 1847, in Allen Township, Union, Ohio, United States.
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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.
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.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English (Lancashire): habitational name from Satterthwaite in Hawkshead (Lancashire), from Old Norse sǽtr ‘mountain pasture, shieling’ + thveit ‘clearing, meadow’.
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