When Elizabeth Wilson was born on 9 October 1843, in Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, Wellington Paul Wilson, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Boardman Smith, was 26. She died on 24 September 1864, in Hamsfork, Uinta, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 20, and was buried in Mountain Township, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Starting as a voluntary association to help buyers and sellers meet to negotiate and make contracts. The Chicago Board of Trade is one of the oldest futures and options exchanges in the world and it is open 22 hours per day to stay competitive.
On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not they wanted to allow slavery within their borders. This Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
English: from the Middle English personal name Will + patronymic -son ‘son of Will’. Will was a very common medieval short form of William . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
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