Brief Life History of Elizabeth Vilate
When Elizabeth Vilate Balderston was born on 14 February 1877, in Ophir, Tooele, Utah, United States, her father, Eli Balderston, was 40 and her mother, Celestia Vilate Buckland, was 18. She died on 19 October 1888, at the age of 11.
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Sources (2)
- Elizabeth Balduhad in household of Eli Balduhad, "United States Census, 1880"
- Elizabeth Balderston, "Geni World Family Tree" on MyHeritage
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World Events (3)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from either of two places in Lancashire called Balderston(e), deriving their names from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Baldhere (composed of the elements bald ‘bold, brave’ + here ‘army’) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Scottish: habitational name from Balderston in West Lothian, which has the same etymology as 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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