Brief Life History of Alden
Alden Cann was born on 1 August 1838, in Danvers, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. He married Amanda M. Shaw on 10 November 1861, in Nova Scotia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He immigrated to Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1903 and lived in Hartford, Windsor, Vermont, United States in 1900 and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1901. He died on 25 March 1923, in Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 84, and was buried in Hebron, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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- Alden Cann in household of Nathan Shaw, "United States Census, 1860"
- Alden Cann, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Alden Eame, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1860 · Abraham Lincoln Elected President
Abraham Lincoln was Elected President of the United States in November of 1860
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English (Devon): habitational name from Cann, a place in Dorset, named from Old English canna ‘can, cup’, used in the transferred sense of a deep valley, or a topographic name from the same word used elsewhere in southwestern England. Alternatively, from Middle English canne ‘can, vessel’, perhaps a metonymic occupational name denoting a maker of vessels for holding liquids.
Irish: shortened form of McCann .
Americanized form of German Kann and Kahn .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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