Brief Life History of Alexander Stewart
When Alexander Stewart Campbell was born on 4 March 1872, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Robert Lang Campbell, was 47 and his mother, Mary Ann Stewart, was 43. He married Alice Young Clawson on 12 June 1901, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He immigrated to Vermont, United States in 1908 and lived in United States for about 20 years and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910. He died on 1 May 1918, in Kenilworth, Carbon, Utah, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Alex Campbell, "United States Census, 1910"
- Utah, U.S., Salt Lake County Birth Records, 1890-1908
- Alexander S. Campbell, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1875 · A New Civil Rights Act
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked, bent’ + beul ‘mouth’. As a result of folk etymology, the surname was often represented in Latin documents as de bello campo ‘of the fair field’, which led to the name sometimes being ‘translated’ into Anglo-Norman French as Beauchamp .
Irish (North Armagh): adopted for Gaelic Mac Cathmhaoil ‘son of Cathmhaol’ (literally ‘battle chief’): see Caulfield and Cowell .
English: variant of Camel , under the influence of the Scottish name (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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