When Sanford Volney Topping was born on 5 August 1870, in Stevens Point, Portage, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Volney Sidney Topping, was 26 and his mother, Eunice Miranda Porter, was 25. He married Mary Elizabeth Harroun on 10 September 1893, in Portage, Columbia, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Grand Rapids, Wood, Wisconsin, United States in 1910 and Saratoga, Wood, Wisconsin, United States for about 10 years. He died on 19 September 1934, in Nekoosa, Wood, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Plover Cemetery, Plover, Portage, Wisconsin, United States.
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English (Lancashire):
nickname from Middle English topping(e) ‘hair on the head’, probably given to someone with a distinctive head of hair or forelock. See also Topp and Topham .
perhaps from an unrecorded Old English personal name Topping, a pet form of Topp. See also Topp .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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