Brief Life History of Earl
When Earl Fenton was born on 1 June 1871, in Pine Island, Goodhue, Minnesota, United States, his father, Philander Salmon Fenton, was 40 and his mother, Harriet Electa Kyle, was 32. He married Lucy Oseola Davidson about 1896, in Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Minnesota, United States in 1875 and Hodges Township, Stevens, Minnesota, United States in 1900. He died on 21 March 1950, in Hancock, Stevens, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Hancock, Stevens, Minnesota, United States.
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- Earle Fenton, "Minnesota State Census, 1875"
- Earl Fenton, "Minnesota Deaths, 1887-2001"
- Earl Fenton, "Minnesota, Stevens County Genealogical Society Records, 1876-2006"
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1872 · The First National Park
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.
1884 · Iron Mining starts in Minnesota
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.
1893 · The Minnesota State Flag
The Flag of Minnesota was adopted on August 2 and consists of scenes from the seal of Minnesota. The flag has been modified over the years to be easier to manufacture.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places, in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Staffordshire, and Nottinghamshire, so called from Old English fenn ‘marsh, fen’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Irish: English surname adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Fionnachta or Ó Fiachna ‘descendant of Fiachna’, an old personal name Anglicized as Feighney and sometimes mistranslated as Hunt (see Fee 1 and Finnerty ).
Scottish: habitational name from Fenton in East Lothian.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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