Brief Life History of Estella Aurora
When Estella Aurora Dunham was born on 26 December 1872, in Marengo, McHenry, Illinois, United States, her father, Jay Dunham, was 37 and her mother, Elizabeth H or Guest Crolens or Crolius, was 30. She married John Holland Tinker on 6 May 1891, in Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Chippewa Falls, Chippewa, Wisconsin, United States in 1900 and Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States in 1920. She died in 1943, in Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States.
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- Estelle Tinker in household of J H Tinker, "Wisconsin State Census, 1905"
- Estella Orora Dunham, "Wisconsin, Marriages, 1836-1930"
- Estella Aurora Dunham Tinker, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1877 · The First Workers Strike
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
1892 · The Chicago Canal
The Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the places called Dunham (Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Cheshire). Most are named from Old English dūn ‘hill’ + hām ‘homestead’. A place in Lincolnshire now known as Dunholme appears in the Domesday Book as Duneham and this too serves as a source of the surname; here the first element is probably the Old English personal name Dunna. Dunham is often difficult to tell apart from Downham .
History: John Dunham (1590–1668) was a Puritan linen weaver who came to Plymouth, MA, via Leiden, the Netherlands, in 1633. He had many prominent descendants.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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