When John Elon Haldeman was born on 9 July 1871, in Richmond, McHenry, Illinois, United States, his father, Jeremiah Haldeman, was 24 and his mother, Rowena Coats Powers, was 24. He married Almeda Jane Norman on 20 August 1900, in Rosewood Township, Chippewa, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Crate Township, Chippewa, Minnesota, United States in 1900 and Montevideo, Chippewa, Minnesota, United States in 1905. He died on 20 August 1909, in Waldeck, Excelsior No. 166, Saskatchewan, Canada, at the age of 38, and was buried in Waldeck Cemetery, Waldeck, Excelsior No. 166, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
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.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Americanized form of South German Haldemann: topographic name for someone who lived on a mountainside or slope, from Middle High German halde ‘slope’ + man(n) ‘man’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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