Brief Life History of George
When George Barker was born from 1873 to 1874, in Monticello, Wright, Minnesota, United States, his father, Albert Francis Barker, was 38 and his mother, Eliza Jerusha Brown, was 34. He died on 30 May 1961.
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Family Time Line
Sources (3)
- George ? Barker in household of Eliza J Barker, "United States Census, 1900"
- George Barker in household of Eliza Barker, "Minnesota State Census, 1895"
- Geo V Barker in household of Albert F Barker, "United States Census, 1880"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1884 · Iron Mining starts in Minnesota
After discovering iron ore in the Vermilion Range in North-East of Minnesota, iron mining companies began to come to the area and caused an economic boom to the area of Duluth and to the state as a whole.
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.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a tanner of leather, from Middle English barkere ‘tanner’, tree bark having been used as the tanning agent.
English: occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle English berker, bercher (Old French berchier, bercher, berkier, berker, Late Latin berbicarius, from berbex ‘ram’, genitive berbicis). With the change of -ar- to -er- in Middle English, this became indistinguishable from the preceding name (see 1 above).
Americanized form of German Berger or Barger .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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