When Anna Catherine Cajsa Nelson was born on 15 June 1865, in Högen, Hemsjö, Västra Götaland, Sweden, her father, John Nelson, was 31 and her mother, Mary Maja Johannesdotter, was 32. She married John August Benson in 1888. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Red Wing, Goodhue, Minnesota, United States for about 5 years. She died on 3 January 1945, in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States.
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The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
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.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English: patronymic from the personal name Nell or Nele, either of which might be a pet form of Elias or less commonly of Niel (from Latin Nigellus). See also Neal .
Americanized form of Swedish Nilsson and also of the Danish, Norwegian, and North German cognates Nielsen and Nilsen (compare Nelsen ). Compare also Neilson and Nielson .
History: The Nelson name was an important one in 18th-century VA, starting with Thomas ‘Scotch Tom’ Nelson, who emigrated to VA at the close of the 17th century from Penrith, Cumbria, where the Nelsons were numerous. Scotch Tom settled c. 1700 at Yorktown, VA, where he became a successful merchant and landholder. His son was sheriff and a member of the VA Council, and his grandson, Thomas Nelson (1738–89), a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was governor of VA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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