When Edward Alfred Walton was born on 23 February 1851, in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine, United States, his father, Reuben Walton, was 58 and his mother, Evaline Burgess, was 22. He married Ina D Clifford on 24 October 1878, in Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa, United States for about 5 years and St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1910. He died on 1 February 1926, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Saint Peters Cemetery, Normandy, St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
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The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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English: habitational name from any of numerous places called Walton, which are named with Old English walh ‘foreigner, Briton, serf’ (genitive plural wala), wald ‘woodland’, wall ‘wall’, or wælla ‘well, spring, stream’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
History: George Walton (1741–1804) signed the Declaration of Independence. He was born in Prince Edward County, VA, whither his grandfather had emigrated from England in 1682. He moved to Savannah, GA, and became governor of GA and a prominent jurist.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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