When Elson Emory Axtell was born on 8 March 1861, in Lorain, Ohio, United States, his father, Augustus Elbridge Axtell, was 38 and his mother, Martha Ann Marion Bartlett, was 28. He married Cornelia A. Lamphier on 11 July 1894, in Clayton, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Bass Brook Township, Itasca, Minnesota, United States in 1930 and Cohasset, Itasca, Minnesota, United States in 1940. He died on 20 January 1942, in Grand Rapids, Itasca, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Strawberry Point Cemetery, Strawberry Point, Clayton, Iowa, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1874: Itasca, Minnesota, United States
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English:
from the Middle English personal name Asketill, from Old Norse Ásketill, composed of the elements áss ‘god’ + ketill ‘sacrificial cauldron, helmet’ (see also Haskell ). This name was in use both among Scandinavian settlers in eastern England (esp. Norfolk) and among the Normans.
nickname for a salt merchant or seller of salt, from Middle English hakke-salt ‘chop salt (into pieces)’. The development of the surname to Axtel is evidenced in 16th-century Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
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