Brief Life History of Cora Elizabeth
When Cora Elizabeth Clayton was born on 20 May 1868, in Beatrice, Gage, Nebraska, United States, her father, Samuel Manin Clayton, was 25 and her mother, Maria Elisabeth Eggert, was 22. She married Martin Farley Holmes on 10 November 1884, in Ramsey, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Moose Jaw, Moose Jaw No. 161, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1911 and Saskatchewan, Canada in 1916. She died on 19 February 1940, in Creston, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 71, and was buried in Creston, British Columbia, Canada.
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- C E Clayton in household of S M Clayton, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Cora E. Clayton - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Cora E. Clayton
- Clara Clayton, "Minnesota, County Marriages, 1860-1949"
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1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
1884 · Iron Mining starts in Minnesota
After discovering iron ore in the Vermilion Range in North-East of Minnesota, iron mining companies began to come to the area and caused an economic boom to the area of Duluth and to the state as a whole.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places, in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, and Sussex, named Clayton, from Old English clǣg ‘clay’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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