Brief Life History of Lydia Alice
When Lydia Alice Blanchard was born on 2 December 1857, in Marion, Grant, Wisconsin, United States, her father, David L Blanchard, was 35 and her mother, Clarissa Walker, was 23. She married Walter Alanson Clark on 14 January 1879, in Boscobel, Grant, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Grant, Wisconsin, United States in 1920 and Boscobel, Grant, Wisconsin, United States in 1930. She died on 12 April 1934, in Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Hickory Grove, Grant, Wisconsin, United States.
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- Liddie A Clark in household of Walter A Clark, "United States Census, 1930"
- Lydia Alice Blanchard, "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911"
- Lydia Alice Blanchard Clark, "Find A Grave Index"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · The First Successful Typewriter is Invented
A patent was filed on October 11, 1867, on a new direct action typewriter. The patent was filed by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule who had invented the prototype in Milwaukee.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: French Armand, Pierre, Andre, Marcel, Emile, Monique, Camille, Dominique, Euclide, Germaine, Leonce, Lucien.
French and English (of Norman origin): from the French medieval personal name Blanchard, from an ancient Germanic name composed of the elements blank ‘white, shining’ + hard ‘strong, brave’.
French and English: derivative of Blanc .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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