When Philipp Heinrich Bernard Grotegut was born on 25 March 1827, in Grastrup, Salzuflen, Lippe, his father, Fredrich Wilhelm Heinrich Grotegut, was 31 and his mother, Friderike Luise Sander, was 24. He married Amelia Brockschmidt on 30 May 1856, in Adams, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Schötmar, Lippe, Germany in 1827 and Fall Creek, Adams, Illinois, United States for about 5 years. He died on 14 May 1876, in Adams, Illinois, United States, at the age of 49.
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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.
"The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the ""British Band"", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis."
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From Greek. See Philip .
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