Brief Life History of Helen Louisa
When Helen Louisa Springer was born on 20 October 1844, in Wenona, Marshall, Illinois, United States, her father, Isaac Springer, was 46 and her mother, Charlotte Ijams, was 38. She married John Wesley Axline on 17 March 1870. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Patton Township, Ford, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Kelso, Scott, Missouri, United States in 1920. She died on 6 December 1929, in Clinton, DeWitt, Illinois, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Lacon, Marshall, Illinois, United States.
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- Helen L Axline, "United States Census, 1910"
- Hellen Louisa Axline, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Helen Louisa Springer Axline, "Find A Grave Index"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Scott, Missouri, United States
1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
Name Meaning
English, German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a lively person or for a traveling entertainer, from an agent derivative of Middle English, Middle High German springen, Middle Dutch springhen, Yiddish shpringen ‘to jump or leap’. The surname of German origin is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine), Poland, Czechia, and Slovenia (see also 4 below). In part, it is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ).
English: occupational name from Middle English springer(e) ‘dancer(?), fencer(?)’; ‘one who traps animals or birds(?)’, a derivative either of Middle English springen ‘to spring up, leap’ (Old English springan) or Middle English spring ‘dance, fencing stroke, bird snare’.
English: perhaps a topographic name from Middle English springer, for someone who lived by a plantation of young trees or by a spring (Middle English spring ‘young tree, young plantation, copse’, ‘spring, source of a stream’; compare Spring ). This type of formation, where the suffix -er is added to a topographic term, is especially frequent in Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire, but no evidence has yet been found to support this derivation of Springer.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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