When Mathias Harper was born on 6 March 1832, in Georgetown, Harrison, Ohio, United States, his father, Moses Harper, was 25 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Harmon, was 23. He married Charlotte Prudence Catlin on 23 October 1855, in Washington, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Jackson Township, Washington, Indiana, United States in 1860 and Liberty Township, Crawford, Indiana, United States in 1880. He died on 23 November 1896, in Marengo, Crawford, Indiana, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Crawford, Shawswick Township, Lawrence, Indiana, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1833: Floyd, Indiana, United States
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
English (Staffordshire), Scottish, Irish (Antrim and Down), and Dutch: occupational name for a player on the harp, from Middle English harper(e) ‘harper’ (Old English hearpere) and Middle Dutch harper, herper. The harper was one of the most important figures of a medieval baronial hall, especially in Scotland and northern England, and the office of harper was sometimes hereditary. The Scottish surname is probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Chruiteir ‘son of the harper’ (from Gaelic cruit ‘harp’, ‘stringed instrument’). This surname has long been present in Ireland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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