Brief Life History of Benjamin
When Benjamin Clegg Jr was born on 29 April 1857, in Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States, his father, Benjamin Clegg, was 30 and his mother, Grace McIntyre, was 32. He married Anna Jane Williams on 19 December 1888, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Gentile Valley, Oneida, Idaho, United States for about 10 years and Grace, Bannock, Idaho, United States in 1930. He died on 4 February 1935, in Grace, Caribou, Idaho, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Grace Cemetery, Caribou, Idaho, United States.
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- Benjamin Clegg in household of Joseph Clegg, "United States Census, 1930"
- Benjamin Clegg, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Benjamin Clegg, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867
End of transportation to Western Australia.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from a place in Lancashire named Clegg, from Old Norse kleggi ‘haystack’, originally the name of a nearby hill. Alternatively, a nickname from Middle English clege and Older Scots cleg, gleg ‘gadfly, horsefly’ (Old Norse kleggi), presumably for an irritating person. The name was taken to Ulster in the early 18th century.
Manx: variant of Clague , which in Lancashire and Cumbria have occasionally been absorbed into Clegg.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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