When Martha Jane Middleton was born on 5 September 1859, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, her father, Charles Franklin Middleton, was 25 and her mother, Martha Clarissa Browning, was 21. She married Angus Taylor Wright on 27 December 1877, 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 Venice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1920. She died on 10 December 1931, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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The First Taranaki War was an armed conflict between the Māori people and the New Zealand Government over rights of land ownership. It was fought by more than 3,500 troops from Australia, as well as over one-thousand Māori. Total losses among the two armies are estimated to be around 440 men. The war ended in a ceasefire, although the British claimed that they had won the war.,
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
English: habitational name from any of the places so called. In over thirty instances from many different areas, the name is from Old English midel ‘middle’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. However, Middleton on the Hill near Leominster in Herefordshire appears in Domesday Book as Miceltune, the first element clearly being Old English micel ‘large’, ‘great’ (see Middlebrook ). Middleton Baggot and Middleton Priors in Shropshire have early spellings that suggest gem̄thhyll (from gem̄th ‘confluence’ + hyll ‘hill’) + tūn as the origin. This surname is also found in Scotland and Ireland.
History: A Scottish family of this name derives it from lands at Middleto(u)n near Kincardine. The Scottish physician Peter Middleton practiced in New York City after 1752 and was one of the founders of the medical school at King's College (now Columbia University) in 1767. One of the earliest of the Charleston, SC, Middleton family of prominent legislators was Arthur Middleton, born in Charleston in 1681. The name has also been established in Ireland since at least the 13th century; its presence was reinforced by settlers in the 17th century.
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Possible Related Names[Four Generation Picture: L-R, back: Emma (Wright) Grant; Granddaughter, Marilyn Grant Newman; Daughter-in-law, Kathryn (Hoag) Grant. Front: Great-granddaughter, Kim (Rowley) Hawley.] Emma was born J …
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