Brief Life History of Evander Jacob
When Evander Jacob Gorton was born on 21 September 1851, in Dickinson, Franklin, New York, United States, his father, Alonzo William Gorton, was 23 and his mother, Eleanor Isabel Perry, was 20. He married Aura Etta Rogers on 30 March 1875, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Wisconsin, United States in 1870 and Baldwin, St. Croix, Wisconsin, United States in 1880. He died on 26 November 1919, in Caryville, Dunn, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States.
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- Evanda Gordon in household of A W Gordon, "United States Census, 1860"
- Evandes Gorton, "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911"
- Evander J. Gorton, "Find A Grave Index"
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1853
Historical Boundaries: 1853: Buffalo, Wisconsin, United States
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 (Lancashire): habitational name from a place in Lancashire, so named from Old English gor ‘dirt, mud’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
History: Introduced in America by a family from Gorton, Lancashire, England (three miles from Manchester), the name Gorton was also adopted by a religious group known as the Gortonites. They were followers of Samuel Gorton (c. 1592–1677), whose unorthodox religious beliefs, which included denying the doctrine of the Trinity, caused him to seek religious toleration by emigrating to Boston in 1637 with his family. In conflict with authorities in Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Newport, he eventually settled in Shawomet, RI, and renamed it Warwick. He died there in 1677, leaving three sons and at least six daughters.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Brief Life Sketch of Evander Jacob Gorton
On 1880 United States Census, Baldwin, St. Croix, Wisconsin taken 21 June 1880 Evander J. Gorton, head of household, white, male, age 27, Occupation Grub Pin Mill, born in Michigan, father born in New …
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