Brief Life History of Nina Evelyn
When Nina Evelyn Boyd was born on 3 March 1882, in Ord, Valley, Nebraska, United States, her father, Hiram Weller Boyd, was 28 and her mother, Emily Eliza Webster, was 21. She married Martin Olaf Martinson on 12 February 1904, in Decorah, Winneshiek, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Chemung, McHenry, Illinois, United States in 1910 and Boone Township, Boone, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. She died on 20 December 1943, in Capron, Boone, Illinois, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Dunham Township, McHenry, Illinois, United States.
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- Nina Martinson in household of Oloff Martinson, "United States Census, 1920"
- Nina Martinson, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Nina Evelyn Martinsen, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
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.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from the island of Bute in the Firth of Clyde, from Bòid (genitive case of Bòd, the Gaelic name of the island of Bute) or Bòideach, denoting a person from Bute. Alternatively, the name may denote descendants of a Gilla filius Boed, who appears in reference to Glasgow Cathedral in the early 12th century, perhaps from the Gaelic personal name Boite, of uncertain origin.
Scottish and Irish: from the Gaelic epithet buidhe ‘yellow(-haired)’. Compare Bowie .
Manx: from Mac Gille Buidhe ‘son of the yellow-haired lad’ (compare 2 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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