When Caleb Thomas Woodman was born on 3 August 1823, in Hatley, Stanstead, Quebec, Canada, his father, Joshua Sawyer Woodman, was 34 and his mother, Mary Polly Sturtevant, was 37. He married Eunice Blodgett on 18 June 1850, in Compton, Quebec, Canada. He died on 12 September 1898, at the age of 75, and was buried in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States.
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The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
1837: Fayette, Wisconsin Territory, United States 1838: Fayette, Iowa Territory, United States 1843: Iowa Territory, Untied States 1846: Unorganized Federal Territory, United States 1849: Minnesota Territory, United States 1849: Dakota, Minnesota Territory, United States 1852: Hennepin, Minnesota Territory, United States 1858: Hennepin, Minnesota, United States
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English:
occupational name for a woodcutter or a forester (compare Woodward ), from Middle English wodeman ‘woodman’. In some instances this may be a variant of Wadman .
from the Middle English personal name Wudemann (Old English Wuduman, from wudu ‘wood’ + mann ‘man’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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