When Jacob Benjamin Outcelt was born in 1799, in Hopewell Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Frederick Outgelt, was 34 and his mother, Hileah Terhune, was 31. He married Elizabeth Azuba about 1828, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 8 November 1878, in Kosciusko, Indiana, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Kosciusko, Indiana, 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.
Indiana is the 19th state.
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.
Perhaps an altered form of German Altgeld, a nickname for a miser or money changer, from Middle High German alt ‘old’ + geld ‘money’.
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