Brief Life History of Esther
When Esther Campbell was born on 21 April 1799, in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, her father, Samuel Campbell II, was 36 and her mother, Anna Higley, was 35. She married Abel Gleason on 10 November 1822, in Dublin, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Rutland Town, Rutland, Vermont, United States in 1850. She died on 27 December 1856, at the age of 57, and was buried in West Street Catholic Cemetery, Rutland Town, Rutland, Vermont, United States.
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- Esther Gleason in household of Abel Gleason, "United States Census, 1850"
- Esther Campbell Gleason, "Find A Grave Index"
- Esther Campbell in entry for Frances Jane Eastman, "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954"
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World Events (8)
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1801
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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.
Name Meaning
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked, bent’ + beul ‘mouth’. As a result of folk etymology, the surname was often represented in Latin documents as de bello campo ‘of the fair field’, which led to the name sometimes being ‘translated’ into Anglo-Norman French as Beauchamp .
Irish (North Armagh): adopted for Gaelic Mac Cathmhaoil ‘son of Cathmhaol’ (literally ‘battle chief’): see Caulfield and Cowell .
English: variant of Camel , under the influence of the Scottish name (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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