by Sharon Hall | Jun 24, 2014 | Tombstone Tuesday
While researching this past weekend’s Surname Saturday article on the Waldo surname, I came across today’s subject. Her story is interesting and a bit intriguing, especially in regards to her parentage. America Waldo was born on June 2, 1844 in Missouri. For years...
by Sharon Hall | Jun 21, 2014 | Surname Saturday
There are two theories as to the origins of the Waldo surname. One source believes the surname is Low German, the name having first been seen there in the thirteenth century along the Franconian-Bavarian border. It is believed that the name is one of the oldest in...
by Sharon Hall | Jun 20, 2014 | Feisty Females
Tomorrow marks the 226th anniversary of the United States Constitution’s ratification when New Hampshire became the ninth state to approve. In honor of that occasion, today’s “feisty female” is a woman whose writings no doubt helped shape that historic document. Her...
by Sharon Hall | Jun 18, 2014 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
In 1880 five prospectors, “Skookum Joe” Anderson, c.c. Snow, Eugene Ervin, Pony McPartland, and David Jones, discovered gold in the Judith Mountains near Lewiston, Montana. There are at least two theories as to how the mining town they founded got its...
by Sharon Hall | Jun 16, 2014 | Mining History Monday
During the nineteenth century thousands of people headed west to find their fortunes, but in 1865 gold was discovered in an unexpected place – in northern Minnesota, just south of the Canadian border. The discovery was more or less accidental since the original...
