When John Harris Parke was born on 10 September 1845, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, his father, Thomas Harris Parke, was 42 and his mother, Huldah Jane Curtis, was 40. He married Margaret Coleman about 1866, in Centerville, Davis, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Centerville, Davis, Utah, United States in 1877. He died on 2 November 1888, in Albion, Cassia, Idaho, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Albion, Cassia, Idaho, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
On May 1-3, 1846, the Nauvoo Illinois Temple was fully dedicated. It was the second temple that had been built by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was the first temple with an angel Moroni on top, in the case of this temple it also doubled as a weather vane. Before the saints left Nauvoo they gathered in great numbers to go through.
Abraham Lincoln's goal was to be different than the previous Senators of Illinois and voice his opinion in how he saw the State and the United States start to drift apart in the different ideology on what was right and what was wrong. Even though it would become an unsuccessful campaign strategy to win the senate seat, to this day it is one of the most famous speeches of US politics.
English: variant of Park . This form of the surname is common in Ireland.
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