Brief Life History of Joseph Lyman
When Joseph Lyman Leffingwell was born on 17 February 1833, in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, United States, his father, William Leffingwell, was 27 and his mother, Eunice Bigelow, was 27. He married Margaret A. E. Ashworth on 4 January 1865, in Cambria, San Luis Obispo, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1847 and lived in Tomales Judicial Township, Marin, California, United States in 1860 and The Dalles, Wasco, Oregon, United States in 1880. He died on 16 October 1884, in Petaluma, Sonoma, California, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Petaluma, Sonoma, California, United States.
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- Joseph Leffingwell in household of Leffingwell, "United States Census, 1850"
- Joseph Lyman Leffingwell, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Joseph L. Leffingwell, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1838
Historical Boundaries - 1838: Oregon Country, United States 1843: Clackamas District, Oregon Country, United States 1846: Clackamas, Oregon Territory, United States 1854: Wasco, Oregon Territory, United States 1859: Wasco, Oregon, United States
1848 · The California Gold Rush
On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Leppingwells in Essex, which is recorded as Leffingwelles in 1561 and owed its name to the possessions there of the family of Robert de Leffeldewelle (1302), who is called Leffingwell in an Elizabethan transcript of the Court Rolls.
History: The family, called Leffingwell in the 15th century and Leppingwell in the 16th, took its name from a lost place recorded as Liffildeuuella in 1086 (from the Old English personal name Lēofhild + Old English wella ‘well, spring, stream’), which may survive in a corrupt form in Levit's Corner in Pebmarsh (Essex), into which their possessions extended.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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