Brief Life History of Elijah Preston
When Elijah Preston Garten was born on 9 October 1828, in Greencastle, Greencastle Township, Putnam, Indiana, United States, his father, William G Garten, was 44 and his mother, Uphia Stephenson, was 28. He married Mary Ann Smith on 19 November 1851, in North Prairie, Washington, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in May Township, Lee, Illinois, United States in 1870 and Boone, Nebraska, United States in 1880. He died on 7 January 1905, in Cedar Rapids, Boone, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Sunset Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, Boone, Nebraska, United States.
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Sources (12)
- Elijah Larton, "United States Census, 1860"
- Elijah Preston Garten, "Find A Grave Index"
- Elijah Preston Garten in entry for Alvin Elijah Garten, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
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World Events (8)
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1837
Historical Boundaries: 1837: Bureau, Illinois, United States
1851 · Constitution of 1851
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
Name Meaning
German: metonymic occupational name for a gardener or overseer of a garden or enclosure. Originally the term denoted the keeper of an enclosure for deer, later of a vineyard or smallholding, from Middle High German garte ‘garden, enclosure’. Compare Hofgarten ‘courtyard’, Weingarten ‘vineyard’. Alternatively, it may be a short form of any of various compound names formed with this element, e.g. Swiss German Gart(en)mann, Gartenhauser.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Garten ‘garden’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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