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EASTON, SEMANTHA - Born in 1810 on the Atlantic Ocean. A St. Paul resident in 1850. [MN50]
EASTWOOD, MACHAEL - Born in 1826 in England. A St. Paul resident in 1850. [MN50]
EATON, ALONZO - A St. Paul carpenter in business with his brother, Benjamin Eaton, in 1849. [WM267]
EATON, BENJAMIN B. - Born in 1811 in England. A St. Paul carpenter in business with his brother, Alonzo Eaton, in 1849. His real estate holdings were valued at $600 in 1850. He and his wife Ann (1821 England) had at least four children: Mary (1843 WI), Amelia (1845 WI), Adelaide (1847 WI), and Cecelia (1848 WI). [WM267, MN50]
EBINGER, JACOB - Born in 1820 in Germany. A stonemason in St. Paul in 1850. [MN50]
EDWARDS, MARY ANNIE - From Fayetteville, NC, she was the fourth wife of Stanislaus Bilanski of St. Paul. In 1859, Bilanski died under suspicious circumstances that showed that he had been poisoned. Mary was arrested for the crime when a woman who had been employed by the family reported that she had purchased arsenic for Mrs. Bilansky. Mrs. Bilanski was tried, convicted, and hanged that same year, the only woman ever to be executed in the state of Minnesota. She had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since childhood, up until the night before her execution. A priest had visited her that evening, and she converted to Catholicism. [WM388-9, 392]
EGBERT, GEORGE - A St. Paul resident in 1850. [WM267]
ELFELT, ABRAM S. - Born in 1826 in Pennsylvania. One of three brothers who came to St. Paul in 1849 and opened the Elfelt Bros. dry goods store. His real estate holdings were valued at $200 in 1850. [WM242, 267, 342, MN50]
ELFELT, CHARLES D. - Born in 1828 in Pennsylvania. One of three brothers who came to St. Paul in 1849 and opened the Elfelt Bros. dry goods store. His real estate holdings were valued at $200 in 1850. [WM242, 267, 342, MN50]
ELFELT, EDWIN - Born in 1822 in Pennsylvania. One of three brothers who came to St. Paul in 1849 and opened the Elfelt Bros. dry goods store. His real estate holdings were valued at $200 in 1850.[WM242, 267, 342, MN50]
ELLIS, SAMUEL - Born in 1829 New York. A carpenter in St. Paul in 1850. [MN50]
EMERSON, JOHN - Dr. Emerson was the military surgeon at Fort Snelling in the late 1830's, and a strong supporter of Major Lawrence Taliaferro, the resident Indian Agent, in his active opposition of whiskey sales to the Native American community. Emerson, a slaveholder while stationed at Fort Snelling, was the owner of Dred Scott, subject of the famous U.S. Supreme Court decision named for him. [WM46,78ff]
ETHRIDGE, DANIEL - A resident of St. Paul in 1850. His wife Abigail died at St. Paul, on Wednesday, July 24, 1850, aged 65 years. [MPv2#15]
EVANS, EVIN - Born in 1828 in New South Wales (Australia). He was a miner in St. Paul in 1850. [MN50]
EVANS, JOHN - Born in 1805 in Ireland. A farmer in St. Paul in 1850. [MN50]
EVANS [EBINS], WILLIAM - Evans was an Irishman who was discharged from the 5th Regiment at Fort Snelling at the same time as Edward Phelan and John Hays in 1837. He was called as a witness in Phelan's trial for Hays' murder. He married Mrs Mortimore following the death of her husband. He selected for his claim a spot on Dayton's Bluff near the Dayton Mansion, and lived there a dozen or more years. He subsequently moved to Cottage Grove, Washington County, where he farmed. [WM71, 102, MN50, LP18]
EVARDS, ANNIE - See MARY ANNIE EDWARDS.
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