Brief Life History of Israel James Smith
When Israel James Smith Young was born on 6 November 1835, in Granville Centre, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Robert Young, was 56 and his mother, Miriam Moody, was 35. He married Frances LeCain on 20 September 1864, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1880 and Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America in 1900. He died on 1 June 1913, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 77.
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- I J S Young, "United States Census, 1880"
- Israel Young, "Canada Births and Baptisms, 1661-1959"
- Israel Young, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
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.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1860 · Abraham Lincoln Elected President
Abraham Lincoln was Elected President of the United States in November of 1860
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English yong ‘young’ (Old English geong), used to distinguish a younger man from an older man bearing the same personal name (typically, father and son). In Middle English this name is often found with the Anglo-Norman French definite article, for example Robert le Yunge. In Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland this was widely used as an English equivalent of the Gaelic nickname Og ‘young’; see Ogg . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘young’ or similar, notably German Jung , Dutch Jong and De Jong , and French Lejeune and Lajeunesse .
Americanized form of Swedish Ljung: topographic or an ornamental name from ljung ‘(field of) heather’, or a habitational name from a placename containing this word, e.g. Ljungby.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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