Brief Life History of Norman Nash
When Norman Nash Cowden was born on 2 November 1847, in Illinois, United States, his father, Ephraim Merrit Cowden, was 26 and his mother, Cornelia Ann Dickson, was 23. He married Elsine Helene Norboe about 1879, in Hebron, Thayer, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 5 January 1916, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Norman N Cowden in household of E M Cowden, "Minnesota Territorial Census, 1857"
- Norman N Cowden, "Nebraska Marriages, 1855-1995"
- Norman Cowdin, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
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1848 · Chicago Board of Trade is organized
Starting as a voluntary association to help buyers and sellers meet to negotiate and make contracts. The Chicago Board of Trade is one of the oldest futures and options exchanges in the world and it is open 22 hours per day to stay competitive.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Cowden in Dalkeith (Midlothian), and any of several other places in Scotland called Cowden.
English: habitational name from one or more of the places so named, such as Cowden in Mayfield, Cowden in Wartling, and Cowden Hall in Heathfield (all in Sussex), Cowden (Kent, Northumberland, and Yorkshire), and Green Cowden in Bakewell (Derbyshire). The surname is more or less restricted to northern England, and is also found in northern Ireland, where it may be of Scottish origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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