When Elizabeth Carr Stillman was born on 23 May 1848, in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, her father, Amos Stillman, was 40 and her mother, Hanna Carr, was 37. She married Samuel M Bingham on 27 December 1881, in Washington, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She died on 12 October 1939, in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 91.
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Historical Boundaries: 1850: San Diego, California, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Americanized form of German Stillmann: variant of Still .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname or artificial name from German still ‘calm, quiet’ + Mann ‘man’ (Yiddish shtil + man).
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a stile or steep ascent, from Middle English stile, stigel, stighel, steghel ‘stile; steep ascent’ (Old English stigel, stigol) + -man. See also Stile and compare Stiller .
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