Brief Life History of Melissa Lavine
When Melissa Lavine Solomon was born on 4 July 1840, in Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States, her father, John Solomon, was 30 and her mother, Mary Ann Watkins, was 27. She married William Carroll McPeak in 1857, in Andrew, Jackson, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Milpitas, Santa Clara, California, United States in 1870 and Maquoketa, Jackson, Iowa, United States for about 5 years. She died on 7 May 1900, in Iowa, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Belle Plaine, Benton, Iowa, United States.
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- Melissa Mc Peak in household of Wm Mc Peak, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mallissa Lavine Solomon - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Melissa Lavina Solomom
- Melissa Solomon in entry for John Howard McPeak, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
Iowa is the 29th state.
1856 · The Largest Map Company in the World
William Rand opened a small printing shop in Chicago. Doing most of the work himself for the first two years he decided to hire some help. Rand Hired Andrew McNally, an Irish Immigrant, to work in his shop. After doing business with the Chicago Tribune, Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. Years later, Rand and McNally established Rand McNally & Co after purchasing the Tribune's printing business. They focused mainly on printing tickets, complete railroad guides and timetables for the booming railroad industry around the city. What made the company successful was the detailed maps of roadways, along with directions to certain places. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways and erected many of the roadside highway signs that have been adopted by state and federal highway authorities. The company is still making and updating the world maps that are looked at every day.
Name Meaning
Jewish, English, Scottish, Dutch, Swedish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Ethiopian, and Eritrean; Spanish (Solomón): from a vernacular form of the Biblical Hebrew personal name Shelomo, a derivative of shalom ‘peace’. The name Solomon has for generations been a popular Jewish name and was also fairly widespread in the Middle Ages among Christians. In the Bible it is the name of King David's successor, noted for his wisdom; among Christians it was therefore also used as a nickname for a man who was considered wise. The spelling Solomon is used in the King James Bible of 1611, which is why this is the standard form of the name in modern English, but spellings with Sal- were more usual across continental Europe, the 1534 Lutheran Bible rendering it as Salomo and the 1560 Geneva Bible as Salomon . From the 7th century the spelling Salomon is recorded as a Christian personal name in France, where it was the name of several saints including a Breton king martyred in 874. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed many cognates from other languages (see Salomon , Salamon ). See also Salmon 1. — Note: Since Ethiopians and Eritreans do not have hereditary surnames, the Ethiopian and Eritrean name was registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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