When Adam Groseclose was born on 11 December 1814, in Wythe, Virginia, United States, his father, Henry Groseclose, was 43 and his mother, Elizabeth Copenbarger, was 44. He married Mildred Ann Asher on 23 April 1846, in Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He died on 3 April 1871, at the age of 56, and was buried in Clark, Missouri, United States.
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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.
“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
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.
Americanized form of German Grossklos (Gross Klaus ‘big Klaus’), probably a distinguishing nickname for the larger (or older) of two bearers of the personal name Klaus in the same family.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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