Brief Life History of Edward G.
When Edward G. Wisdom was born about 1848, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America, his father, Edward Godfrey Wisdom, was 32 and his mother, Jane Rebecca Bayer, was 28. He married Abigail W Mead on 7 May 1874, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1850 and Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1900. He died on 20 August 1929, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 82.
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- Edward Wisdom, "United States Census, 1900"
- Edward G Wisdon or Wisdom, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Edward G. Wisdom, "Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1968"
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1848 · Chicago Board of Trade
Starting as a voluntary association to help buyers and sellers meet to negotiate and make contracts. The Chicago Board of Trade is one of the oldest futures and options exchanges in the world and is open 22 hours per day .
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
English (Middlesex, Surrey, Hampshire, and Kent): nickname for a wise or learned person, from Middle English wisdom (Old English wīsdōm) ‘wisdom, learning’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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