Brief Life History of Benjamin Franklin
When Benjamin Franklin Terry was born on 15 April 1845, in Crooked Creek Township, Cumberland, Illinois, United States, his father, William Reynolds Terry, was 32 and his mother, Mary Allen Phillips, was 30. He married Mary Elizabeth Lay on 3 May 1869, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Bluffdale, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900 and Election Precinct 8, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910. He died on 27 September 1914, in Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Franklin Terry, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Benjamin Franklin Terry - birth-name: Benjamin Franklin Terry
- Benjamin Franklin Terry, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1965"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
Historical Boundaries: 1846: Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Iowa, United States 1847: Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
English and Irish: from the Norman personal name T(h)erry (Old French Thierri), a short form of Theodoric, which is composed of the ancient Germanic elements theud ‘people, race’ + rīc ‘power(ful), rich’. Theodoric was the name of the Ostrogothic leader (c. 454–526) who invaded Italy in 488 and established his capital at Ravenna in 493. His name was sometimes taken as a derivative of Greek Theodōros (see Theodore ). An Anglo-Norman family of this name has been in County Cork, Ireland, since the 13th century.
Irish: sometimes an Anglicized (‘translated’) form of Gaelic Mac Toirdhealbhaigh (see Turley ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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