When Melissa Lyda Pender was born on 23 May 1849, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Hopkins Carl Pender, was 24 and her mother, Mary Jennette Drake, was 17. She married Cornelius Pauldin Groot on 15 February 1869, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Bingham, Idaho, United States in 1910 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1920. She died on 3 July 1923, in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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California was admitted into the Union on September 9, 1850, and became the 31st state.
Historical Boundaries 1865: Called Taylor's Crossing, Oneida, Idaho Territory, United States 1866: Named changed to Eagle Rock, Oneida, Idaho Territory, United States 1885: Eagle Rock, Bingham, Idaho Territory, United States 1891: Renamed Idaho Falls, Bingham, Idaho, United States 1911: Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
English: occupational name for an official who was responsible for rounding up stray animals and placing them in a pound, from Middle English pinder(e), pender(e), ponder(e), punder(e), puindere, poindere. See Pounder .
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