Lana Colton

Brief Life History of Lana

When Lana Colton was born in March 1872, in Dallas, Iowa, United States, her father, Isaac Adam Colton, was 56 and her mother, Mary Jane Tice, was 33. She married John William Bennett about 1893, in Dallas, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Woodward, Dallas, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Union Township, Dallas, Iowa, United States in 1930.

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Family Time Line

John William Bennett
1872–1923
Lana Colton
1872–
Marriage: about 1893
George Austin Bennett
1895–1967
Gretchen Jane Bennett
1897–1922
Mabel Bennett
1900–
Lloyd Bennett
1905–
Claude William Bennett
1910–1967
Lana Berneita Bennett
1913–

Sources (20)

  • Lany Colton in household of Isaac Colton, "Iowa State Census, 1885"
  • Lana Colton, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
  • Lana Bennett, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"

World Events (8)

1873

Historical Boundaries: 1873: Foster, Dakota Territory, United States 1889: Foster, North Dakota, United States

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor

A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.

Name Meaning

English (Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire): habitational name from any of various places called Colton in England. Examples in Norfolk, Staffordshire, and North Yorkshire are from the Old English personal name Cola (or the cognate Old Norse Koli; see Cole 2) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. The place so named in Somerset has as its first element the Old English personal name Cūla (of uncertain origin). The one in Cumbria has a river name apparently derived from a Celtic word meaning ‘hazel’. This English name is also common in Ireland; it was the name of a bishop of Derry in 1397. There seems also to have been confusion with Culliton .

Scottish and Irish (Monaghan): shortened and altered form of Gaelic Mac Haldan, ‘son of Haldan’, see Haldane .

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

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