Brief Life History of Elizur B.
When Elizur B. Carter was born on 17 August 1840, in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, his father, Roswell Carter, was 34 and his mother, Sarah A. Boardman, was 28. He married Augusta Sutliff on 16 November 1866, in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 20 December 1892, in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 52.
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- Elizur Carter in household of Sally Carter, "United States Census, 1860"
- Elizur B. Carter, "Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997"
- Elizur B. Carter, "Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1848 · Slavery is Abolished
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a transporter of goods, from Middle English carter(e) ‘carter’ (Anglo-Norman French car(e)tier, Old French charetier, medieval Latin carettarius, carettator). The Old French word coalesced with the earlier Middle English word cart(e) ‘cart’, which is from either Old Norse kartr or Old English cræt, both of which, like the Late Latin word, were probably derived from Celtic. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Irish: shortened form of McCarter .
Americanized form of German Karter ‘carder’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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