When Jemima Kline was born on 5 October 1796, in Klines Grove, Rush Township, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Herman Kline, was 33 and her mother, Rachel Barton, was 36. She married Samuel C. Straw in 1815, in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 31 May 1838, in Morrow, Ohio, United States, at the age of 41, and was buried in Mount Gilead, Morrow, Ohio, United States.
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While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.
Zanesville becomes the new state capital.
Americanized form of German, Dutch, and Jewish Klein .
Slovenian: derivative of klin ‘wedge, wooden peg’, used as a topographic name for someone who lived on a wedge-shaped piece of land.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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