Brief Life History of Morris Maurice
When Morris Maurice Crowell was born on 1 August 1838, in Haysville, Wellington, Canada West, British Colonial America, his father, Hiram Crowell, was 32 and his mother, Clarissa Jane Ann Anderson, was 30. He married Triphena L Napier on 3 July 1863, in Hillsdale, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Flushing, Genesee, Michigan, United States in 1860 and Delamar, Lincoln, Nevada, United States in 1900. He died on 25 December 1906, in Adams Township, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Hillsdale, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States.
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- Morris Crowell in household of Hiram Crowell, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Morris Crowell - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Morris Crowell
- Morris Crowell, "Michigan, County Marriages, 1820-1940"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1847 · Moving the State Capital
The capital of Michigan was moved from Detroit to Lansing on March 17, 1847. The capital was moved to be further away from Canada, to encourage settlement and boost economy toward the inner regions of the state, and to make to capital more accessible to everyone statewide.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a lost place called Crowell in Spofforth (Yorkshire), or from a place in Oxfordshire named Crowell, from Old English crāwe ‘crow’ + well(a) ‘spring, stream’.
Americanized form of German Grauel .
Americanized form of Dutch Krouwel or Crouwel: from Middle Dutch crauwel ‘trident hook, claw’, a metonymic occupational name for someone using this kind of tool, or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house or inn named In de Crouwel (‘In the Trident Hook’), with such a device depicted on the signboard.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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