Brief Life History of Elijah Gideon
Elijah Gideon Wolf was born in 1796, in Maine, United States as the son of Michael Wolf and Margaret Wolf. He married Sarah Elizabeth Hartman on 29 January 1826, in Clinton, Knox, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Richwoods Township, Lawrence, Arkansas, United States for about 10 years. He died in 1863, in Sharp, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 67.
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- Elijah Woolf, "United States Census, 1850"
- Elijah Gideon Wolf, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-1997"
- Elias Wolf, "United States Index to Passenger Arrivals, Atlantic and Gulf Ports, 1820-1874"
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1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1815
Historical Boundaries - 1815: Lawrence, Missouri Territory, United States; 1819: Lawrence, Arkansas Territory, United States; 1836: Lawrence, Arkansas, United States
Name Meaning
German, English, Dutch, and Danish: from a short form of the various ancient Germanic compound names with the first element wolf ‘wolf’, or a byname or nickname with this meaning, or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of a wolf. The wolf was native throughout the forests of Europe, including Britain, until comparatively recently. In ancient and medieval times it played an important role in ancient Germanic mythology, being regarded as one of the sacred beasts of Woden. The surname of German origin is also found in many other parts of Europe, e.g. in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Croatia, often as a German translation of local equivalents. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Hungarian Farkas , Czech and Slovak Vlk , Slovenian Volk , Ukrainian and Slovenian Vovk , Slovenian, Croatian, and Serbian Vuk , and also Czech, Slovenian, Croatian, Slovak, and Hungarian Volf . In part, this is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ). Compare De Wolf , Wolfe , Wolff , Woolf , Woulfe , and Wulf .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish male personal name Volf meaning ‘wolf’, which is associated with the Hebrew personal name Binyamin (see Benjamin ). This association stems from Jacob's dying words ‘Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil’ (Genesis 49:27). Compare Volf .
Irish: variant of Woulfe .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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ELIJAH GIDEON WOLF Elijah Gideon Wolf was born in Maine in 1796. Most of the few facts we have of his personal life come from an autobiography written by his son, Enoch Obed. It is not known what …
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