Brief Life History of Benjamin Wade
When Benjamin Wade Walton was born on 11 November 1872, in Farmington, Oakland, Michigan, United States, his father, Edward Isaiah Walton, was 27 and his mother, Sarah Arnold Moser, was 23. He married Ada Pilling on 4 August 1899, in Carrington, Foster, North Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Foster, North Dakota, United States in 1935 and Carrington, Foster, North Dakota, United States in 1940. He died on 4 September 1957, at the age of 84, and was buried in Carrington, Foster, North Dakota, United States.
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- Wade Walter, "United States Census, 1900"
- Wade Watson, "Michigan, County Births, 1867-1917"
- Benjamin Wade Walton, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1882
Historical Boundaries: 1882: Foster, Dakota Territory, United States 1889:Foster, North Dakota, United States
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places called Walton, which are named with Old English walh ‘foreigner, Briton, serf’ (genitive plural wala), wald ‘woodland’, wall ‘wall’, or wælla ‘well, spring, stream’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
History: George Walton (1741–1804) signed the Declaration of Independence. He was born in Prince Edward County, VA, whither his grandfather had emigrated from England in 1682. He moved to Savannah, GA, and became governor of GA and a prominent jurist.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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The patio & house looks like it's my Grandparent's house at Brookston, Indiana. Thomas James Cowdin & Mae Pearl Cowdin. My Great Grandpa, Thomas Earl Cowdin, lived with them, too.
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