Brief Life History of Caleb
When Caleb Taft Jr. was born on 21 September 1819, in Monroe, New York, United States, his father, Caleb Taft, was 27 and his mother, Charlotte Logue, was 25. He married Harriet Durrant on 3 November 1839. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Mendon, Monroe, New York, United States for about 15 years. He died on 29 December 1885, in Penfield, Monroe, New York, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Pine Hill Cemetery, Rush, Monroe, New York, United States.
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- Caleb Taft, "New York State Census, 1855"
- Caleb Taft, "New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956"
- Killip Taft in entry for Jasper E. Taft, "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936"
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1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1821
Historical Boundaries: 1821: Monroe, New York, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English (mainly Staffordshire and Derbyshire): variant of Toft .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial or metonymic occupational name from German Taft ‘taffeta’.
History: Robert Taft (born c. 1640), lived in Braintree, MA, and subsequently Mendon, MA. — Alphonso Taft (1810–91), jurist and politician born in Townshend, VT, was the father of William Howard Taft (1857–1930), 27th president of the US and chief justice of the US Supreme Court.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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