When Alice Eliza Benson was born on 11 August 1848, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Ezra Taft Benson, was 37 and her mother, Eliza Ann Parry, was 20. She married James Henry Goodwin Sr on 20 December 1867. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States in 1880 and Baker City, Baker, Oregon, United States in 1920. She died on 3 June 1923, in Oregon City, Clackamas, Oregon, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Seattle, King, Washington, United States.
English: patronymic from the medieval personal name Ben(ne), a pet form of Benedict (see Benn ) + -son.
English: habitational name from a place in Oxfordshire named Benson, from Old English Benesingtūn ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with Benesa’, a personal name of obscure origin, perhaps a derivative of Bana meaning ‘slayer’.
Americanized form of any of various Scandinavian patronymics from the personal name Bengt, Bendt, etc., Scandinavian forms of Benedict , e.g. Swedish Bengtsson , Danish Bendtsen, Danish and Norwegian Bentsen . Compare Bensen 2.
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