Brief Life History of Louisa
When Louisa Leavitt was born on 10 December 1835, in Sherbrooke, La Région-Sherbrookoise, Quebec, Canada, her father, Weare Leavitt, was 50 and her mother, Phoebe Cowles, was 39. She married Horton David Haight on 12 February 1854, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States in 1880. She died on 28 March 1915, in Oakley, Cassia, Idaho, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Oakley Cemetery, Oakley, Cassia, Idaho, United States.
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- Louisa Haight in household of Horton W Haight, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Louisa Leavitt - birth:
- Lornore Learitt Height, "Idaho Death Certificates, 1911-1937"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1839 · Nauvoo is Settled
After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.
1856 · The Largest Map Company in the World
William Rand opened a small printing shop in Chicago. Doing most of the work himself for the first two years he decided to hire some help. Rand Hired Andrew McNally, an Irish Immigrant, to work in his shop. After doing business with the Chicago Tribune, Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. Years later, Rand and McNally established Rand McNally & Co after purchasing the Tribune's printing business. They focused mainly on printing tickets, complete railroad guides and timetables for the booming railroad industry around the city. What made the company successful was the detailed maps of roadways, along with directions to certain places. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways and erected many of the roadside highway signs that have been adopted by state and federal highway authorities. The company is still making and updating the world maps that are looked at every day.
Name Meaning
English:
(of Norman origin): nickname from Anglo-Norman French leuet ‘wolf cub’ (see Low 3).
habitational name from any of various places in Normandy called Livet. All are of obscure, presumably Gaulish, etymology.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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A GLIMPSE AT THE LIFE OF PHOEBE COWLES LEAVITT
Birth and Marriage Phoebe was born on July 26, 1796 in Claremont, New Hampshire to Phineas and Catharine Stone Cowles. Phoebe’s father, Phineas, was not quite sixteen years of age when he enliste …
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