Brief Life History of Elvira Calista
When Elvira Calista Bean was born on 4 July 1840, in New Hampshire, United States, her father, Job Insley Bean, was 28 and her mother, Sally H Griffin, was 25. She married Joseph Hale Dustin on 15 December 1859. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Hennepin, Minnesota, United States in 1900. She died on 26 September 1918, in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 78.
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- Evila C Dustin in household of Joseph H Dustin, "Minnesota State Census, 1885"
- Elvira F Dustin, "Minnesota Deaths, 1887-2001"
- Elvira Bean in entry for Fannie Gertrude Barrows, "British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1852
Historical Boundaries: 1852: Hennepin, Minnesota Territory, United States 1858: Hennepin, Minnesota, United States
1862 · The Dakota Conflict/War
The Dakota War was an armed conflict between the United States and several bands of Dakota Native Americans. It began along the Minnesota River four years after Minnesota was admitted as a state. The Dakota made attacks on hundreds of settlers, which resulted in their deaths. A military tribunal sentenced 303 Dakota men to death for their crimes but 264 of them were exonerated. The remaining 38 were apart of a mass hanging on December 26 that same year. It was the largest mass execution in United States history.
Name Meaning
English: nickname for a pleasant person, from Middle English bēne ‘friendly, amiable’.
English: metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of beans, from Middle English bene ‘bean’ (Old English bēan ‘beans’, a collective singular). The broad bean, Vicia faba, was a staple food in Europe in the Middle Ages. The green bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, came from South America and was not introduced to Europe until the late 16th century. The word bene was commonly used to denote something of little worth, and occasionally it may have been applied as a nickname for someone considered insignificant.
English: possibly a habitational or topographic name. Redmonds, Dictionary of Yorkshire Surnames, cites Adam del Bene of Harrogate (1351) as evidence to suggest that in the Harrogate area, where the Yorkshire name later proliferated, it may have been derived from a place where beans grew.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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