When Helen M Gordon was born on 15 April 1860, in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States, her father, John Gordon, was 52 and her mother, Isabella Jessie Bisset, was 35. She married Thomas W. Conway in 1881, in Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910 and Stockton, Tooele, Utah, United States in 1913. She died on 4 November 1913, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Stockton Cemetery, Stockton, Tooele, Utah, United States.
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The 14th Regiment New York State Militia, or 14th Brooklyn, was constituted on May 13, 1847. The 14th Brooklyn received the nickname “The Red Legged Devils” due to their vibrant red trousers. At the time, most Union regiments wore blue. The volunteer militia, led by Colonel Alfred M. Wood, consisted primarily of abolitionists from Brooklyn. They served between the years of 1861 through 1864 and were known for their grit and determination and never stood down from a fight.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Scottish: habitational name from Gordon in Berwickshire, named with Welsh gor ‘spacious’ + din ‘fort’.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Gourdon in Saône-et-Loire, so called from the Gallo-Roman personal name Gordus + the locative suffix -o, -ōnis.
English (of Norman origin): alternatively, said to be a nickname from a diminutive of Old French gourd ‘heavy, dull, sluggish’ (compare 8 below).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesI visited with Auntie that summer. I am quite sure it was the summer of 1900, but I could be mistaken. Auntie seemed concerned about Grandma Gordon. Grandma was well, but had a lot of work to do. …
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