Brief Life History of Fox
Fox Fields was born about 1819, in Texas, United States.
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World Events (3)
1819 · Panic! of 1819
Age 0
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.
1820 · Making States Equal
Age 1
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1844 · German Immigration to Texas
Age 25
Over 7,000 German immigrants arrived in Texas. Some of these new arrivals died in epidemics; those that survived ended up living in cities such as San Antonio, Galveston, and Houston. Other German settlers went to the Texas Hill Country and formed the western portion of the German Belt, where new towns were founded: New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English feldes, plural or possessive of feld ‘arable field, flat open country’. See Field .
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Deschamps .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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