Brief Life History of Eldon Benton
When Eldon Benton Henry was born on 14 June 1891, in Marshfield, Steuben Township, Warren, Indiana, United States, his father, David Ira Henry, was 30 and his mother, Minerva Watson, was 31. He married Carrie Belle Altman on 29 August 1914, in Jackson, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Delaware Township, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States in 1910 and Arapahoe, Colorado, United States in 1920. He died on 14 February 1920, in Denver, Colorado, United States, at the age of 28, and was buried in Denver, Colorado, United States.
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- Elden B Henry in household of Hanriette Henry, "United States Census, 1900"
- Eldon B Henry, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Eldon Benton Henry, "Find A Grave Index"
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1892 · The Chicago Canal
The Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.
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.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English, French, Walloon, and West Indian (mainly Jamaica and Haiti): from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements haim, heim ‘home’ + rīc ‘power, ruler’, introduced to England by the Normans in the form Henri. During the Middle Ages this name became enormously popular in England and was borne by eight kings. Continental forms of the personal name were equally popular throughout Europe. In the period in which the majority of English surnames were formed, a common English vernacular form of the name was Harry, hence the surnames Harris (southern) and Harrison (northern). Official documents of the period normally used the Latinized form Henricus. In medieval times, English Henry absorbed an originally distinct Old English personal name that had hagan ‘hawthorn’ (compare Hain 2) as its first element, and there has also been confusion with Amery. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. German Heinrich , and also their derivatives, e.g. Swedish Henriksson (see Henrikson ). Compare Henri .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hInnéirghe ‘descendant of Innéirghe’, a byname based on éirghe ‘arising’.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Éinrí or Mac Einri, patronymics from the personal names Éinrí, Einri, Irish forms of Henry. It is also found as a variant of McEnery .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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