Brief Life History of Benjamin
When Benjamin Winchester was born on 6 August 1817, in Blackrock, Manheim Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Stephen Winchester Sr., was 22 and his mother, Nancy Case, was 22. He married Mary Hannah Maria Stone on 25 February 1840, in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1860. He died on 25 January 1901, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Walnut Hill Cemetery, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States.
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- Benjamin Winchester, "United States Census, 1860"
- 1940 marriage - Benjamin Winchester - Flickr
- Berry Winchester, "Iowa, County Death Records, 1880-1992"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
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
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.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the city in Hampshire, so named from the addition of Old English ceaster ‘Roman fort or walled city’ (from Latin castra ‘legionary camp’) to the Romano-British name Venta, of disputed origin.
History: John Winchester was admitted a freeman in Brookline, MA, in 1637. Oliver Winchester (1810–80), owner of the arms company that produced the Winchester rifle, was his fifth-generation descendant, born in Boston.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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