When Isaac Hiram Benson was born on 24 July 1848, in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, Alfred Benjamin Benson, was 31 and his mother, Hettie Elizabeth Yager, was 27. He married Alfaretta Talmadge on 2 January 1876, in Lake Arrowhead, San Bernardino, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in San Bernardino Judicial Township, San Bernardino, California, United States in 1900. He died on 1 September 1931, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1853: San Bernardino, California, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
English: patronymic from the medieval personal name Ben(ne), a pet form of Benedict (see Benn ) + -son.
English: habitational name from a place in Oxfordshire named Benson, from Old English Benesingtūn ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with Benesa’, a personal name of obscure origin, perhaps a derivative of Bana meaning ‘slayer’.
Americanized form of any of various Scandinavian patronymics from the personal name Bengt, Bendt, etc., Scandinavian forms of Benedict , e.g. Swedish Bengtsson , Danish Bendtsen, Danish and Norwegian Bentsen . Compare Bensen 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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