The Eidson surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,381 people carried this name — #7,585 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 67,100 people counted. That is up 2% from 4,279 in 2000.

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In print

Eidson in American newspapers,
1907.

Newspaper page from The Alamogordo News carrying the name Eidson
The Alamogordo News 1907-07-06
Newspaper page from The Alamogordo News carrying the name Eidson
The Alamogordo News 1907-01-05
Newspaper page from The Alamogordo News carrying the name Eidson
The Alamogordo News 1907-05-04

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 7,747 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Eidson in Australian newspapers,
1860s–1950s.

155 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Eidson. The most, 63, date from the 1890s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in Western Australia, at 7.1 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

Western Australia 91
New South Wales 21
Queensland 20
Victoria 13
South Australia 8
Tasmania 2

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Eidson.

Who carried it

People named Eidson,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Lambert Eidson 1880–1916 · head teacher
  • Fern Sawyer 1917–1993 · politician

Wikidata (CC0) · 8 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Eidson,
in the records of 2 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States246 records

246 records of the Eidson name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 178
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 50
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 7
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 4
  • Riverside Cemetery, Asheville (North Carolina) 2
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 2
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 2
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Joe C. Eidson

    Born 1925 in Texas. Enlisted 1945 at Houston; machine shop worker from Harris County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1998, buried at Union Springs Cemetery, Corrigan, Texas.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Samuel Arlen Eidson

    Born 1933; from North Birmingham, Alabama. U.S. Army, infantryman; died of wounds 1965 in South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Christian Eidson

    Arrived at New York in 1890 aboard the Germanic from Liverpool and Queenstown, aged 38; farmer. From Germany.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 246 records for Eidson in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · City of Asheville (public domain, PDDL) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

United Kingdom1 record

1 record of the Eidson name in the United Kingdom War Office casualty lists, 1917–1919, among the dead
  1. A First World War roll of honour of the staff of C. & E. Morton Ltd
    Example: roll of honour, 1914–1919
    War record H. Eidson

    North Staffordshire Regiment. Listed among the dead in the War Office casualty list of 1918.

    National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain)

Counts: National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: C. & E. Morton Ltd roll of honour, 1914–1919, photo by Adrian S Pye via Geograph (CC BY-SA 2.0).

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