When Mary Adelia Holden was born on 8 October 1846, in Yellowstone, Lafayette, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Edwin Holden, was 39 and her mother, Ruia Angeline Bliss, was 31. She married Lemuel Lewis Williams on 20 April 1861. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1850 and Manchester, Hartford, Connecticut, United States in 1880. She died on 16 October 1863, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 17.
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Historical Boundaries: 1847: Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
A debate continues over the location of the creation of the Republican Party. Some sources claim that the party was formed in Ripon, Wisconsin, on February 28, 1854. Others claim the first meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Michigan, on July 6, 1854, where the Republican Party was officially organized. Over 1,000 people were present and candidates were selected for the party, thus making it the first Republican convention.
English: habitational name from one or more of various places so named, especially Holden in Haslingden (Lancashire), but also Holden in Bolton and Holden in Silsden (both Yorkshire), Holedean Farm in Henfield and Holden in Rotherfield (both Sussex), Holding Farm in Cheriton and Woolding Farm in Whitchurch (Hampshire), and Holden in Southborough (Kent). Most of the placenames derive from Old English hol ‘hollow’ + denu ‘valley’, though Holden in Rotherfield (Sussex) and Holden in Southborough (Kent) may have Old English denn ‘pasture’ as the final element. Compare Holcomb .
Norwegian: habitational name from the name of several farms, most of them derived from Old Norse hǫll ‘slope, hillside’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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