Brief Life History of Jacob
When Jacob Fenton was born on 7 December 1830, in Bolton, Bolton, Warren, New York, United States, his father, Elisha Fenton Sr, was 35 and his mother, Farozina "Fanny" Allen, was 30. He married Mary C. Potter on 16 March 1853, in Bolton, Bolton, Warren, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Kingsbury, Washington, New York, United States for about 17 years and Fort Edward, Fort Edward, Washington, New York, United States in 1900. He died on 7 June 1905, in Fort Edward, Washington, New York, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Union Cemetery, Fort Edward, Washington, New York, United States.
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- Jacob Fenton, "New York State Census, 1892"
- Jacob Fenton, "New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956"
- Jacob Fenton in entry for John George Fenton, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
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1832 · The Black Hawk War
Convinced that a group of Native American tribes were hostile, The United States formed a frontier militia to stop them in their tracks. Even though Black Hawk was hoping to avoid bloodshed while trying to resettle on tribal land, U.S. officials opened fire on the Native Americans. Black Hawk then responded to this confrontation by successfully attacking the militia at the Battle of Stillman's Run and then left northward. After a few months the militia caught up with Black Hawk and his men and defeated them at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights. While being weakened by hunger, injuries and desertion, Black Hawk and the rest of the many native survivors retreated towards the Mississippi. Unfortunately, Black Hawk and other leaders were later captured when they surrendered to the US forces and were then imprisoned for a year.
1834
Victoria's first successful British settlement was at Portland, on the west coast of what is now Victoria. Portland was settled on 19 November 1834
1851
Become the Colony of Victoria from 2 July.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places, in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Staffordshire, and Nottinghamshire, so called from Old English fenn ‘marsh, fen’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Irish: English surname adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Fionnachta or Ó Fiachna ‘descendant of Fiachna’, an old personal name Anglicized as Feighney and sometimes mistranslated as Hunt (see Fee 1 and Finnerty ).
Scottish: habitational name from Fenton in East Lothian.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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