When Jonas Humphrey Winter was born on 29 November 1813, in Shutesbury, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Jonas L Winter, was 25 and his mother, Melinda Haskins, was 20. He married Elizabeth Alden Farrow on 25 April 1836, in Shutesbury, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Rice, Minnesota, United States in 1860 and Minnesota, United States in 1870. He died on 30 July 1887, in Faribault, Rice, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Faribault, Rice, Minnesota, 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 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.
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.
English: from the Middle English (Old English) personal name Winter (Old English Wintra), originally a nickname from the word for ‘winter’ and perhaps still a nickname (see 2 below) in the period of surname formation.
English: occasionally perhaps an occupational name from Middle English winter, a variant of Middle English, Anglo-Norman French viniter, vinter ‘wine merchant’.
Irish: Anglicized form (part translation) of Gaelic Mac Giolla-Gheimhridh ‘son of the lad of winter’, from geimhreadh ‘winter’. This name is also Anglicized McAlivery.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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