Julia Benedict

Female24 October 1839–1906

Brief Life History of Julia

When Julia Benedict was born on 24 October 1839, in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, her father, Thomas Benedict VII, was 42 and her mother, Susan Betts, was 40. She died in 1906, at the age of 67.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Benedict VII
1797–1883
Susan Betts
1799–1876
Thomas Benedict VIII
1817–1895
Mary Benedict
1821–1830
Elizabeth Benedict
1827–
Sarah Benedict
1832–1889
Edwin Dwight Benedict
1839–1917
Julia Benedict
1839–1906

Sources (1)

  • Julia Benedict in household of Thomas Benedict, "United States Census, 1850"

Parents and Siblings

Siblings (6)

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World Events (8)

1846

Age 7

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1848 · Slavery is Abolished

Age 9

In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.

1863

Age 24

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

English, German, and Dutch: from the personal name Benedict, from Latin Benedictus ‘blessed’. This owed its popularity in the Middle Ages chiefly to Saint Benedict of Norcia (c. 480–550), who founded the Benedictine order of monks at Monte Cassino and wrote a monastic rule that formed a model for all subsequent rules. No doubt the meaning of the Latin word also contributed to its popularity as a personal name, especially in Romance countries. Occasionally the English surname may derive from Latin benedicite ‘bless (you)’, perhaps given as a nickname to an habitual user of the expression. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed the German variant Benedikt and many cognates from other languages, e.g. Hungarian Benedek , Slovenian Benedik (see Benedick ), and also their patronymics and other derivatives, e.g. Italian Benedetti .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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