When John Van Meter Cawood was born in 1805, in Ohio, United States, his father, Thomas Cawood, was 29 and his mother, Rebecca Baldwin, was 24. He married Phebe M Baldwin on 7 April 1831, in Champaign, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Goshen Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States for about 10 years and Urbana, Urbana Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States in 1870. He died in 1874, at the age of 69.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Zanesville becomes the new state capital.
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
English: habitational name from a place in Yorkshire called Cawood, from Old English cā ‘jackdaw’ + wudu ‘wood’.
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