When Calvin Alford was born in 1846, in Chariton, Missouri, United States, his father, Thomas Alford, was 44 and his mother, Mary Polly Williams, was 23. He died on 10 June 1850, in Nebraska, United States, at the age of 4.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
habitational name from any of various places called Alford, for example in Somerset, Cheshire and Lincolnshire. The first is named with the Old English female personal name Ealdgȳth + ford ‘ford’. See also Alvord .
variant of Halford (or vice versa).
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