When Benjamin Ewer was born on 18 April 1814, in Onondaga, Onondaga, New York, United States, his father, Thomas Ewer VIII, was 42 and his mother, Elizabeth Lucy Russell, was 44. He married Elinora Hunt in 1838, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Granville, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States for about 20 years and Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States in 1880. He died on 20 February 1900, in Marshfield, Wood, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Marshfield, Wood, Wisconsin, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1834: Milwaukee, Michigan Territory, United States 1836: Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory, United States 1848: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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English (Hertfordshire, Middlesex, and Buckinghamshire): occupational name from Middle English ewere, a shortened form of ewerer ‘servant who supplied guests at the table with water to wash their hands’. The word ewerer is itself a derivative of Old French and Middle English ewer ‘water pitcher’, also recorded in Middle English as ower. Compare Lower .
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