Brief Life History of William Ober
When William Ober Woods was born on 6 March 1813, in Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine, United States, his father, Andrew Wood, was 27 and his mother, Hannah Obear, was 25. He died on 10 May 1821, at the age of 8.
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- William Ober Woods, "Maine, Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
- William-Obear Wood, "Maryland, Church Records, 1668-1995"
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World Events (3)
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
Maine is the 23rd state.
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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Wood with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: adopted as a translation of Ó Cuill ‘descendant of Coll’ (see Quill ), or in Ulster of Mac Con Coille ‘son of Cú Choille’, a personal name meaning ‘hound of the wood’, which has also been mistranslated Cox , as if formed with coileach ‘cock, rooster’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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