Brief Life History of Emma
When Emma Farmer was born on 11 December 1818, in Ledbury, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Richard Farmer Sr, was 32 and her mother, Elizabeth Morris, was 30. She married Henry Arnold IV on 14 December 1848, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She died on 15 February 1891, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Emma Arnold in household of Henry Arnold, "United States Census, 1870"
- Utah, U.S., Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
- Emma Arnold, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1833 · The Factory Act Restricts Child Labor
The Factory Act restricted the hours women and children could work in textile mills. No child under the age of 9 were allowed to work, and children ages 9-13 could not work longer than 9 hours per day. Children up to the age of 13 were required to receive at least two hours of schooling, six days per week.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English fermo(u)r, fermer and Anglo-Norman French fermer (Old French fermier, medieval Latin firmarius). The term denoted in the first instance a tax farmer, one who undertook the collection of taxes, revenues, and imposts, paying a fixed (Latin firmus) sum for the proceeds, and only secondarily someone who rented land for the purpose of cultivation; it was not applied to an owner of cultivated land before the 17th century.
Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Mac an Scolóige ‘son of the husbandman’, a rare surname of northern and western Ireland.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered form Therrien . Compare Pharmer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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