Brief Life History of Catherine
Catherine Hipsher was born in 1800, in Pennsylvania, United States as the daughter of Dorothy Smith. She married Peter DeGear on 4 November 1817, in Scioto, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. She died on 8 May 1839, in Ohio, United States, at the age of 39.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Katherine Hipshire - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Katherine Hipshire
- Catherine Kipsher, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Catherine Kipshen, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
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1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1803
Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Name Meaning
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from an inflected form of German hübsch ‘handsome, nice’. The first syllable has been influenced in sound by the Yiddish word hipsh ‘considerable, sizeable’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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