Lydia Jane Leach

Brief Life History of Lydia Jane

Lydia Jane Leach was born in 1842, in Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, United States as the daughter of Josiah B Leach and Susan. She married Daniel Baron Stow Lunt in 1859. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in United States in 1900 and Bar Harbor, Hancock, Maine, United States for about 10 years. She died on 24 March 1908, in Maine, United States, at the age of 66.

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Family Time Line

Mark L. Milliken
1843–1926
Lydia Jane Leach
1842–1908
Marriage: 26 May 1864
Winford William Milliken
1865–
Grace F. Milliken
1872–
Bennie Leach Milliken
1885–1887
Minnie A. Milliken
1868–
Mark L. Milliken
1876–1940
Sherman Ernest Milliken
1890–1944

Sources (10)

  • Lydia J Walker in household of Mark L Walker, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Lydia J Leach in entry for Unknown and Unknown, "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921"
  • Lydia Milliken in household of Mark L Milliken, "United States Census, 1870"

World Events (8)

1842 · Webster–Ashburton Treaty

The Webster-Ashburton Treaty was signed on August 9, 1842 and resolved the border issues between the United States and British North American colonies which had caused the Aroostook War. The treaty contained several agreements and concessions. It called for an end on the overseas slave trade and proposed that both parties share the Great Lakes. It also reaffirmed the location of the westward frontier border (near the Rocky Mountains) as well as the border between Lake Superior and Lake of the Woods. The treaty was signed by Daniel Webster (United States Secretary of State) and Alexander Baring (British Diplomat, 1st Baron Ashburton).

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name for a physician, from Middle English leche, lache ‘physician’ (Old English lǣce ‘leech; physician, blood-letter, surgeon’). The name refers to the medieval medical practice of bleeding, typically by applying leeches to a patient. The surname is recorded in the late 14th-century Poll Tax Returns for men whose occupation is stated as medicus ‘physician’, or occasionally spicer (spicers acted as apothecaries), but some men named le Leche have unrelated occupations including cultor ‘cultivator, farm laborer’, which suggests that leche could refer to an amateur ‘medicine man’ who supplied folk remedies.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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