When Leonard Ellsworth Harrington was born on 27 January 1816, in New Lisbon, New Lisbon, Otsego, New York, United States, his father, Spencer Harrington, was 23 and his mother, Polly Evans, was 21. He married Lois Russell on 3 February 1840, in Newstead, Erie, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. In 1850, his occupation is listed as first mayor, postmaster, and bishop of american fork in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States. He died on 21 June 1883, in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in American Fork Cemetery, American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Harrington (Cumberland, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire). The Cumberland placename derives from the Old English personal name Hæfer + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The Lincolnshire placename derives from the Old English personal name Hearra + Old English connective -ing- + tūn. The Northamptonshire derives from an Old English personal name Hǣthhere + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. Compare Herendeen .
Irish: adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hArrachtáin ‘descendant of Arrachtán’, a personal name from a diminutive of arrachtach ‘mighty, powerful’.
Irish: in Kerry, this name was adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hIongardail, later Ó hUrdáil, ‘descendant of Iongardal’, a personal name of uncertain origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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