Brief Life History of Ellen Marie
When Ellen Marie MATTHIASDATTER ENGER was born on 11 September 1852, in Børsa, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway, her father, Matthias MATTHIASEN, was 42 and her mother, Margrethe ERIKSDATTER, was 36. She married Christian Johan ENGER in 1873, in Fillmore, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 16 September 1918, in Hendrum Township, Norman, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Pontoppidan Cemetery, Hendrum, Norman, Minnesota, United States.
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- Ellen Enger in household of Christian J Enger, "United States Census, 1900"
- Ellen Enger, "Minnesota Deaths, 1887-2001"
- Elen, "Norway Church Books, 1815-1930"
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1855 · Erik Werenskiold
Birth year of Erik Werenskiold Norwegian painter and illustrator. He was especially known for his drawings of the Asbjørnsen and Moe fairytale collection.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Lars, Alf, Bjorn, Erik, Iver, Juel, Kristoffer, Selmer.
Norwegian: habitational name from various farmsteads, notably in eastern Norway, so named from the plural indefinite form of Old Norse eng ‘meadow’.
South German: habitational name for someone from any of various places called Enge, Engen, Engar, Enger, or Engern.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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