Brief Life History of Jasper Newton
When Jasper Newton Elder was born on 28 December 1840, in Harrisville, Butler, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Newton Elder, was 35 and his mother, Isabella Donaldson, was 32. He married Margaret Emeline Wyer on 25 March 1869, in Edina, Knox, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Salt River Township, Knox, Missouri, United States in 1870 and Lemhi Valley, Lemhi, Idaho, United States in 1880. He died on 19 August 1923, in Salmon, Lemhi, Idaho, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Salmon, Lemhi, Idaho, United States.
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- Jasper N Elder, "United States Census, 1910"
- Jasper N Elder, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
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1845
Historical Boundaries: 1845: Knox, Missouri, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Scottish: distinguishing nickname from Middle English and Older Scots elder ‘parent; older, senior person’, perhaps in some cases denoting the older of two bearers of the same personal name. It may have been used also to denote an elder of a church, a senior and respected member of the congregation. Compare Senior .
English: in southeastern England, this may be a variant of Helder .
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Elter , which has the same meaning as 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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