Brief Life History of Louisa Alexandrine
When Louisa Alexandrine Ballif was born on 25 February 1850, in Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland, her father, Serge Louis Ballif, was 28 and her mother, Elise Marie LeCoultre, was 25. She married George Taft Benson on 20 December 1867, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Whitney, Franklin, Idaho, United States in 1910. She died on 7 February 1922, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Logan Cemetery, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Louisa R. Benson, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Louisa Alexandrine Ballif - Individual or family possessions: birth: 25 February 1850; Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
- Louisa Ballif Benson, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1859 · Logan is Founded
"\""During the end of April, David Reese and his company settled the land north of the Logan River. That area was the second permanent settlement in Cache Valley and the future location of Logan. The city's boundary was drawn by Logan's first bishop, Jesse W. Fox, a government engineer. The name \""\""Logan\""\"" comes from a trapper that used to frequent the area before the pioneers came to the valley.\"""
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1869
Historical Boundaries 1869: Oneida, Idaho Territory, United States 1890: Oneida, Idaho, United States 1913: Franklin, Idaho, United States
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Lupe, Ana Isabel, Armando, Gonzalo, Guadalupe, Hilaria, Jose, Juan, Juan Carlos, Juana Maria, Macario, Mario.
German and Danish: habitational name from a place so named near Neubrandenburg, Germany.
Jewish (western Ashkenazic): most likely, metronymic from the hypocoristic form (using the suffix -lin) of the Yiddish female personal name Be(y)le (see Balin 1). Earliest bearers of the name spelling Bal(l)in or Bellin appear in available sources of Switzerland at the turn of the 14th–15th centuries.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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