When Emaline Dekalb was born about 1863, in Iowa, United States, her father, John De Kalb, was 46 and her mother, Sarah Pamelia Enlow, was 43. She died on 5 February 1865, at the age of 3.
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Probably an altered form of German Kalb ‘calf’.
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