Brief Life History of Esther Ella
When Esther Ella Bilyeu was born on 17 January 1902, in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States, her father, Francis Simeon Bilyeu, was 32 and her mother, Caroline Dietrich, was 28. She married Frederick Leclair Renaud on 17 December 1926, in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Workman Township, Aitkin, Minnesota, United States for about 15 years. She died on 5 December 1950, in Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States.
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- Ester E Bilyeu, "Minnesota State Census, 1905"
- Esther R Renaud, "Minnesota Deaths, 1887-2001"
- Esther Bilyer in entry for Renaud, "Minnesota, Death Records and Certificates, 1900-1955"
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1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
1906 · The End of Capital Punishment
Between the state's entry into the Union and 1906, 27 people were executed by hanging in Minnesota. Public opinion soon shifted against the death penalty in the state and was formally abolished in 1911. Since its abolishment, there have been 23 attempts to reinstate the death penalty, but none of these bills passed the state legislature.
1915 · Home of the Federal Reserve Bank for the Ninth District
The first building for the Federal Reserve bank in Minneapolis was completed in 1915 and was a peculiar structure. It had no windows on the lower walls close to the street and later, a small skyscraper was added to the top. It was created to serve the states of Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, and the northern parts of Wisconsin and Michigan. Even though it covers a wide area, it serves the smallest population base of the entire reserve system. Today the Federal Reserve is housed in three buildings that are housed a few blocks away from each other.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of French Billiou: from the ancient Germanic personal name Biliwulf, composed of the elements bili ‘gentle’ and wulf ‘wolf’. Compare Belyeu and Bilyou .
History: The surname Bilyeu is listed along with its original form Billiou and altered forms Balliou and Barlow in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors. The Huguenot ancestor was Thomas Billiou, who fled from France in the first half of the 17th century (first to Flanders and then to the Netherlands); it was his (grand)son Pierre alias Peter Billiou who left the Netherlands and came with his wife and children to New Amsterdam in New Netherland (now New York City, NY) in 1661.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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