Brief Life History of Louisa Harriet Howe
When Louisa Harriet Howe Greenwood was born on 2 June 1808, in Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Jonathan Greenwood, was 22 and her mother, Phebe Temple, was 19. She had at least 5 sons and 2 daughters with Charles Ward Greenleaf. She died on 5 June 1840, in Barnard, Windsor, Vermont, United States, at the age of 32, and was buried in Woodstock, Windsor, Vermont, United States.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Louisa Harriet Greenwood - Individual or family possessions: birth: 2 June 1808; Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
- Louisa Howe Greenwood, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Louisa Howe Greenwood Greenleaf, "Find A Grave Index"
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · War of 1812
Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from Greenwood Lee in Heptonstall (Yorkshire), from Middle English grene ‘green’ + wode ‘wood’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Grünholz, an ornamental compound of German grün ‘green’ + Holz ‘wood’, and probably also of the same German surname.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Grünwald (see Grunwald ), and of French Boisvert .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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