Brief Life History of Irving Henry
When Irving Henry Benjamin was born on 3 November 1869, in Preston, New London, Connecticut, United States, his father, Levi Standish Benjamin, was 39 and his mother, Ann Webb Hinckley, was 33. He married Lena Marx on 3 December 1892, in Preston, New London, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Hartford, Connecticut, United States in 1935 and Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1917. He died on 24 December 1942, at the age of 73, and was buried in Preston City Cemetery, Preston, New London, Connecticut, United States.
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- Irving Henry Benjamin, "Connecticut, Military Census Questionnaires, 1917"
- Irving H. Benjamin, "Connecticut Marriages, 1640-1939"
- Irving H Benjamin, "Find A Grave Index"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1876 · Pope Manufacturing Co. Begins Automobile Manufacturing
Pope Manufacturing Company produced bicycles, motorcycles, and automobiles. The main office is located in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1915, the company ceased producing motorcycles.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
Jewish (Sephardic and Ashkenazic), English, French, West Indian (mainly Haiti), and African (mainly Nigeria and Tanzania); Hungarian (Benjámin): from the Hebrew male personal name Binyāmīn ‘Son of the South’. In the Book of Genesis, it is treated as meaning ‘Son of the Right Hand’. The two senses are connected, since in Hebrew the south is thought of as the right-hand side of a person who is facing east. Benjamin was the youngest and favorite son of Jacob and supposed progenitor of one of the twelve tribes of Israel (Genesis 35:16-18; 42:4). The personal name was not common among Gentiles in the Middle Ages, but its use was sanctioned by virtue of having been borne by a Christian saint martyred in Persia in about AD 424. In some cases in medieval Europe it was also applied as a byname or nickname to the youngest (and beloved) son of a large family; this is the sense of modern French benjamin. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Assyrian/Chaldean Benyamin and Italian Beniamino.
History: John Benjamin (1598–1645) came from England to Watertown, MA, in 1632. Jean-Baptiste Benjamin dit Saint-Aubin from France married Jeanne Allard in QC in 1704.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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