Brief Life History of Ezra B
When Ezra B Badlam was born in 1840, in Illinois, United States, his father, Alexander Badlam Sr, was 32 and his mother, Mary Ann Brannan, was 34. He married Louisa Kelly on 9 November 1871, in San Francisco, California, United States. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1850 and lived in California, United States in 1870 and San Francisco, California, United States in 1880. He died on 30 September 1883, in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in St. Helena, Napa, California, United States.
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- E B Badlam in household of Alex Badlam, "United States Census, 1870"
- Ezra B. Badlam, "Find A Grave Index"
- Ezra B. Badlam, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1856 · The Largest Map Company in the World
William Rand opened a small printing shop in Chicago. Doing most of the work himself for the first two years he decided to hire some help. Rand Hired Andrew McNally, an Irish Immigrant, to work in his shop. After doing business with the Chicago Tribune, Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. Years later, Rand and McNally established Rand McNally & Co after purchasing the Tribune's printing business. They focused mainly on printing tickets, complete railroad guides and timetables for the booming railroad industry around the city. What made the company successful was the detailed maps of roadways, along with directions to certain places. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways and erected many of the roadside highway signs that have been adopted by state and federal highway authorities. The company is still making and updating the world maps that are looked at every day.
Name Meaning
English (Dorset): variant of Balaam (assimilated by folk etymology to the Biblical personal name Balaam, see Numbers 23–24), which is a habitational name from Baylham in Suffolk or a Norman surname derived from Ballon in Le Mans, Sarthe, France (compare Ballon ). The surname may also be a variant of English Balham, perhaps from Balham in Streatham, Surrey, named with Old English bealg ‘smooth’ or ‘round’ + hamm ‘water meadow, land hemmed in by water’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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