Franklin Boardman Colton

Male1 April 1833–5 March 1893

Brief Life History of Franklin Boardman

When Franklin Boardman Colton was born on 1 April 1833, in Manlius, Manlius, Onondaga, New York, United States, his father, Ebenezer Colton, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth Cooley, was 30. He married Catharine Hill on 17 August 1859, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Darby Monthly Meeting, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. He died on 5 March 1893, in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Franklin Boardman Colton
1833–1893
Catharine Hill
1834–1898
Marriage: 17 August 1859
Franklin Hill Colton
1860–1921
Mary Cooley Colton
1863–1950
Albert Barnes Colton
1866–1941
Henry Blood Colton Sr.
1868–1925
John Somers Colton
1871–1897
Charles Page Colton
1873–1953
Edith Cooper Colton
1876–1876
Lewis H. Colton
1878–1886
Raymond Purdy Colton
1880–1950

Sources (42)

  • F B Coulton, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Franklin B. Colton, "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803-1915"
  • Frank Cotton in entry for John Cotton, "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Births, 1860-1906"

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  • Marriage
    17 August 1859Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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    World Events (8)

    1836 · Remember the Alamo

    Age 3

    Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

    1846

    Age 13

    U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

    1855 · Prohibition Law

    Age 22

    Delaware enacted a statewide prohibition law in 1855.

    Name Meaning

    English (Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire): habitational name from any of various places called Colton in England. Examples in Norfolk, Staffordshire, and North Yorkshire are from the Old English personal name Cola (or the cognate Old Norse Koli; see Cole 2) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. The place so named in Somerset has as its first element the Old English personal name Cūla (of uncertain origin). The one in Cumbria has a river name apparently derived from a Celtic word meaning ‘hazel’. This English name is also common in Ireland; it was the name of a bishop of Derry in 1397. There seems also to have been confusion with Culliton .

    Scottish and Irish (Monaghan): shortened and altered form of Gaelic Mac Haldan, ‘son of Haldan’, see Haldane .

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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