When George Franklin Pendleton was born on 20 May 1867, in Camden, Knox, Maine, United States, his father, Richard Franklin Pendleton, was 20 and his mother, Maria Ophelia Colamore, was 21. He died on 22 March 1886, at the age of 18, and was buried in Hinton, Plymouth, Iowa, United States.
English: habitational name from either of two places in Lancashire (in Eccles and Whalley, respectively) called Pendleton, from the hill name Pendle + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, estate, settlement’.
History: The Pendleton family were established in Caroline County, VA, by Philip Pendleton, a schoolmaster from Norwich, England, who immigrated to North America in 1682.
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