When Samuel Rolfe was born on 24 December 1839, in Flint, Genesee, Michigan, United States, his father, Joseph Rolfe, was 20 and his mother, Nancy, was 20. He married India Ann Stephens in 1873, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States. He registered for military service in 1866. He died on 5 July 1908, in Beaverton, Washington, Oregon, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Crescent Grove Cemetery, Tigard, Washington, Oregon, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
The capital of Michigan was moved from Detroit to Lansing on March 17, 1847. The capital was moved to be further away from Canada, to encourage settlement and boost economy toward the inner regions of the state, and to make to capital more accessible to everyone statewide.
Oregon became the 33rd state admitted to the Union on February 14, 1859.
English: of Norman origin, from the Middle English and Anglo-Norman French personal name Rolf, Roulf, Rou, Roul, Rouf, Rof. Its usual derivation is from Old Norse Hrólfr, Rolf, from ancient Germanic hrōd ‘fame, renown’ + wulf ‘wolf’, and occasionally from ancient Germanic Rodulf, of the same origin as Hrólfr (earlier Hróthúlfr) but in a West Frankish form, which the Scandinavian Normans occasionally used. The name was also common in Normandy where it became Old French Roul, Rou, often Latinized as Rollo. See Ralph and compare Rowe , Dow , and Rowson .
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