Brief Life History of Louisa
When Louisa Calder was born on 21 December 1864, in Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, George Calder, was 26 and her mother, Mary Bennion, was 20. She married William Orme Lee on 17 November 1886, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 11 September 1900, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Bountiful Memorial Park, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States.
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- Louisa Calder Lee in household of William Orme Lee, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
- Louisa Calder Lee, "Find A Grave Index"
- Louisa Calder in entry for Louie Calder Lee, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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World Events (8)
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · The Assassination of a President
While attending the play "Our American Cousin" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South.
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from any of the places called Calder in Midlothian and Caithness, or Cawdor in Nairnshire.
English: perhaps a habitational name from Calder in Cumbria, named from the river on which it stands (probably a British name, from Welsh caled ‘hard, violent’ + dwfr ‘water, stream’). However, the modern surname in England seems to be of Scottish origin, rather than from the Cumbrian placename.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Louisa Calder
Louisa Calder accompanied her husband William on a mission to Samoa. She bore her second child there, Harry Calder Lee, my grandfather. I imagine serving a mission during those times was a very ar …
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