Brief Life History of Martin Montgomery
When Martin Montgomery Bird was born on 12 October 1848, in Cambridgeport, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Edmund Fuller Bird, was 39 and his mother, Cordelia Moore Martin, was 20. He married Cecelia Gerber on 17 June 1886, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 11, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900 and Mount Emmons, Duchesne, Utah, United States in 1920. He died on 16 April 1929, in El Centro, Imperial, California, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Murray Cemetery, Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Martin Bird in household of Edmund F Bird, "United States Census, 1850"
- Martin M. Bird, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Martin M Bird, "California Death Index, 1905-1939"
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1853
EARLIEST KNOWN BURIAL: Boy Kallen BIRTH unknown DEATH 3 Aug 1853 BURIAL Murray City Cemetery Murray, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA PLOT 08 032 6 MEMORIAL ID 59154
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: nickname for a young or a small and slender person, from Middle English brid, bird, burd (Old English bird, brid, perhaps also byrd) ‘bird, young bird’, also ‘young man, young woman, child’.
Irish: Anglicized form of a number of Irish names erroneously thought to contain the element éan ‘bird’, in particular Ó hÉinigh (see Heagney ), Ó hÉanna (see Heaney ), Ó hÉanacháin (see Heneghan ), and Mac an Déaghanaigh (see McEneaney ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘bird’, as for example German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Vogel , French Loiseau , Czech Ptáček (see Ptacek ) and Pták, Polish Ptak .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Life and History of Martin Montgomery Bird by Cordelia Bird Brown Boswell
THE LIFE AND HISTORY OF MARTIN MONTGOMERY BIRD Martin Montgomery Bird was born the 12th of October 1848, in Boston Massachusetts. He was the first son of Edmund Fuller Bird and Cordelia Moore Martin …
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