Brief Life History of Joel
When Joel Resden was born in January 1851, in Indiana, United States, his father, Jacob Risdon, was 37 and his mother, Sarah, was 38. He had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with Anna Hester Stoy. He lived in Burlington, Burlington Township, Calhoun, Michigan, United States in 1880 and Union Township, Branch, Michigan, United States in 1900. He died on 30 May 1906, in Three Rivers, St. Joseph, Michigan, United States, at the age of 55.
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- Joel Risden, "United States Census, 1880"
- Joel Risden, "Michigan Deaths and Burials, 1800-1995"
- Joseph Risdon in entry for Charles Henry Merwin and Catherine M Shafer, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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World Events (8)
1851 · Constitution of 1851
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
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.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Knute.
German, Scandinavian, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone from Dresden in Saxony.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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