Brief Life History of Helen A.
When Helen A. Olmstead was born on 19 February 1846, in Vermilion, Erie, Ohio, United States, her father, Auren Chapmam Olmsted, was 24 and her mother, Active Amelia Byington, was 27. She married Orville Daniel Olmsted on 25 December 1870, in Jackson, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Albion, Calhoun, Michigan, United States in 1920 and Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1930. She died in 1933, in Moscow, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Old Soldier Cemetery, Moscow, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States.
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- Helen A Olmstead in household of Orrin Olmstead, "United States Census, 1860"
- Nellie A Olmstead, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
- Helen A. Olmsted, "Find A Grave Index"
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1848 · State Capital Moves to Lansing
Detroit fought to maintain the Capitol within its jurisdiction, but communities in the growing western part of the state had reasons for wanting a move inland. This move would make the Capitol more easily defensible in case of another war between the British and the U.S. like that of the War of 1812. Proponents of moving the capitol also sought to make the government more accessible to the people throughout the state. Construction began in 1847 on a temporary state capitol building in Lansing. It was a simple two-story wood frame structure, painted white with green wooden shutters and topped by a tin cupola. The building was sold when the permanent capitol building opened in 1879 and, like the first capitol, it was later destroyed by a fire in 1882.
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: habitational name from Olmstead Green in Cambridgeshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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