Brief Life History of Cornelia Nellie
When Cornelia Nellie Patterson was born on 7 August 1867, in Lancaster, Grant, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Alvin A Patterson, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth J Newton, was 21. She married Samuel Bedard on 25 December 1883, in Elk Point, Union, South Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Buncombe Township, Sioux, Iowa, United States in 1920 and Sioux Township, Sioux, Iowa, United States in 1925. She died on 4 September 1931, in Sioux, Iowa, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Hawarden, Sioux, Iowa, United States.
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- Nellie B?e?n in household of Samuel B?e?n, "United States Census, 1920"
- South Dakota Births, 1856-1903
- Iowa, Select Marriages, 1809-1992
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1868 · Impeach the President!
Caused by many crimes and breaking the Tenure of Office Act, Many Senators and House Representatives became angry with President Johnson and began discussions of his Impeachment. After a special session of Congress, the Articles of Impeachment were approved by the House and then the Senate. Making Andrew Johnson the first President to be Impeached.
1871
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
1885 · The First Skyscraper
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: variant of Patrickson ‘son of Patrick ’, which was either shortened to Patrison and metathesized to Patterson, or shortened from Paterickson to Patterson.
Irish: in Ulster, this name is of English or Scottish origin, but in County Galway, it was also taken by bearers of the Gaelic name Ó Caisín ‘descendant of the little curly-headed one’ (from Gaelic casín ‘curly’), which is usually Anglicized as Cussane. In addition to the confusion between Irish Gaelic casín ‘curly’ and cosán ‘path’, there has also been an erroneous assumption that the English name Patterson is somehow derived from the English word path.
English: 19th-century variant of Patteson, a shortened form of Pattinson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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