When Phillip James Garn Sr was born on 1 May 1819, in St. Clair Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Johannes Garn, was 41 and his mother, Susanna Cable, was 44. He married Mary Magdalene Fought on 9 August 1838, in Jackson Township, Sandusky, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Jackson Township, Sandusky, Ohio, United States in 1850. He registered for military service in 1857. He died on 18 January 1859, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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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.
"The United States law requiring full payment at the time of purchase and registration of any land. to help encourage sales and make land more affordable, Congress reduced the minimum price of dollar per acre and the minimum size that could be purchased. Most of this land for sale was located on the frontier which was then ""The West"". This Act was good for many Americans, but it was also over used by wealthy investors."
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
English (western): from a lost place called Garn in Westbury on Severn (Gloucestershire).
English: perhaps a shortened form of the Old French personal name Geron, the oblique case form of Garo, a pet form of ancient Germanic names in Ger- (see Gerald , Gerard , Garbutt ). A shortened form Gern would have given rise to a variant pronunciation Garn in late Middle English.
English: perhaps a shortened form of Garron .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related Namesby Leona G. Holbrook Philip James Garn was the son of John Garn and Susana Pringle. (It is to be noted that Susana Pringle may have been Susan Cable because she lived with her married sister, whose …
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