Margaret Horn
about 1815–before 1843 (Age 28)
Highland, Ohio, United States
The Life of Margaret
When Margaret Horn was born about 1815, in Highland, Ohio, United States, her father, Johnathan Horn, was 25 and her mother, Adah Vinsonhaler, was 20. She died before 1843, at the age of 27.
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Family Time Line
Johnathan Horn
1790–1823
Adah Vinsonhaler
1795–
George Washington Horn
1813–
Margaret Horn
1815–1843
Joseph J Horn
1817–
James Horn
1819–1880
Mary " Polly" Horn
1821–
Johnathan Horn
1823–1859
Parents and Siblings
1790–1823Male
1795–Female
siblings
(6)
1813–Male
1815–1843Female
1817–Male
1819–1880Male
1821–Female
+1 More Child
World Events (5)
1819 · Panic! of 1819
Age 4
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.
1820 · Making States Equal
Age 5
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.
1825 · The Crimes Act
Age 10
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.
Name Meaning
1 English, Scottish, German, and Dutch: from Middle English, Middle High German, Middle Dutch horn ‘horn’, applied in a variety of senses: as a metonymic occupational name for someone who made small articles, such as combs, spoons, and window lights, out of horn; as a metonymic occupational name for someone who played a musical instrument made from the horn of an animal; as a topographic name for someone who lived by a horn-shaped spur of a hill or tongue of land in a bend of a river, or a habitational name from any of the places named with this element (for example, in England, Horne in Surrey on a spur of a hill and Horn in Rutland in a bend of a river); as a nickname, perhaps referring to some feature of a person's physical appearance, or denoting a cuckolded husband.2 Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, from Old Norse horn ‘horn’, ‘spur of land’.3 Swedish: ornamental or topographic name from horn ‘horn’, ‘spur of land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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