When Elizabeth M Pelton was born on 20 November 1850, in Vermont, United States, her father, Orrin Pelton, was 27 and her mother, Mandana Patrick, was 26. She married Edward March Knox on 21 February 1870, in Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. She lived in Hinesburg, Chittenden, Vermont, United States for about 10 years and Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, United States in 1880. She died on 15 May 1893, in Rutland Town, Rutland, Vermont, United States, at the age of 42.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
St. Albans Raid took place on October 19, 1864. It was a Confederate raid from Canada into Union territory. Confederate soldiers that were in Canada raided the town of St. Albans killed one person and robbed three banks.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English: habitational name from Pelton, a place in County Durham,named from an unattested Old English personal name Pēola +tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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