Isaac Hiram Benson

Brief Life History of Isaac Hiram

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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Family Time Line

Isaac Hiram Benson
1848–1931
Alfaretta Talmadge
1857–1936
Marriage: 2 January 1876
Sarah Eliza Benson
1876–1978
Clarence Denver Benson
1878–1961
Settie Lorraine Benson
1881–1922
Ethel Mae Benson
1884–1970
Elmer LeBaron Benson
1887–1961
Viola Benson
1887–
Edna Idella Benson
1889–1986
Gladys Katherine Benson
1891–1965
Alma Ilene Benson
1894–1910

Sources (22)

  • Isaac H Benson, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Isaac Walker, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
  • T U Benson, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"

World Events (8)

1853

Historical Boundaries: 1853: San Bernardino, California, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

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.

Name Meaning

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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