Brief Life History of Elizabeth Elmina
When Elizabeth Elmina Baldwin was born on 28 September 1837, in Far West, Caldwell, Missouri, United States, her father, Caleb Baldwin, was 46 and her mother, Nancy Kingsbury, was 39. She married Stephen Bliss Moore on 1 April 1855. She lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850 and Iron, Utah, United States in 1850. She died on 12 February 1904, in Tropic, Garfield, Utah, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Cannonville Cemetery, Cannonville, Garfield, Utah, United States.
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- Betsey Baldwin, "United States Census, 1850"
- Elizabeth Elmina Baldwin in the Family Data Collection - Births
- Elizabeth E. B. Moore, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
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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.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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 and North German: from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements bald ‘bold, brave’ + wine ‘friend’, which was extremely popular among the Normans and in Flanders in the early Middle Ages. It was the personal name of the Crusader who in 1100 became the first Christian king of Jerusalem, and of four more Crusader kings of Jerusalem. It was also borne by Baldwin, Count of Flanders (1172–1205), leader of the Fourth Crusade, who became first Latin Emperor of Constantinople (1204). In North America, this surname has absorbed Dutch forms such as Boudewijn.
Irish: surname adopted in Donegal by bearers of the Gaelic surname Ó Maolagáin (see Milligan ), due to association of Gaelic maol ‘bald, hairless’ with English bald.
History: A John Baldwin from Buckinghamshire, England, arrived in the US in 1638 and settled in Milford, CT.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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