Brief Life History of Elery Channing
When Elery Channing Webster was born on 9 July 1844, in Marion, Center Township, Grant, Indiana, United States, his father, George Washington Webster, was 33 and his mother, Maria Jane Mc Kinney, was 28. He married Sarah Elizabeth Hiatt on 18 June 1865, in Grant, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Center Township, Grant, Indiana, United States in 1860. He died on 17 December 1916, at the age of 72, and was buried in Marion, Center Township, Grant, Indiana, United States.
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- C E Webster, "United States Census, 1900"
- Elery C. Webster, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
- Ellery C. Webster, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1851 · Constitution of 1851
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name for a weaver, from Middle English webbester ‘weaver’ (Old English webbestre ‘female weaver’). By the time of surname formation, the gender distinction of the -stre suffix had almost completely disappeared. Compare Webb , Webber , and Weaver .
History: The name Webster was brought to North America from England independently by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One John Webster settled in Ipswich, MA, in 1635; another John Webster (died 1661), ancestor of the lexicographer Noah Webster, emigrated to Cambridge, MA, c. 1631 and later became one of the founders of the colony of CT, of which he was appointed governor in 1656. Daniel Webster (1782–1852), politician and orator, was born in Salisbury, NH, a descendant of Thomas Webster, a prominent 17th-century citizen of Ipswich, MA, whose family had settled there around 1635, while he was still a child.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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