When Oren Main was born on 16 August 1846, in Stoney Creek Township, Henry, Indiana, United States, his father, Ira Main, was 40 and his mother, Malinda Jane Thornburg Main, was 34. He married Mary Frances McVicker on 16 June 1874, in Henry, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Warren Township, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. He died on 23 March 1897, in Henry, Indiana, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Union Township, Randolph, Indiana, United States.
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Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
The town of Santa Fe was denied their application for a United States Postal Service as a town of Santa Fe, Indiana, was already established. Several meetings were held and the name was changed to Santa Claus, Indiana. The United States Postal Service granted their application. Due to the name, the post office in Santa Claus continues to receive thousands of letters to Santa Claus from children around the world each December.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Scottish: from a shortened form of the Scandinavian personal name Magnus , which in Older Scots became Manus and Mane.
English (of Norman origin) and French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Ma(g)ino, Meino, from magan ‘strength, might’.
English (of Norman origin): nickname for a large man, from Old French magne, maine ‘great, big’.
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