Brief Life History of Maude Grace
When Maude Grace Packard was born on 30 July 1883, in DeKalb, Illinois, United States, her father, George Floyd Packard, was 28 and her mother, Ida May Campbell, was 20. She married William Darrah Mincks on 16 February 1903, in Belvidere, Boone, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Kirkland, DeKalb, Illinois, United States in 1900 and LeRoy Township, Boone, Illinois, United States in 1910. She died on 10 July 1933, in Jackson Township, Noble, Ohio, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, Lowell, Washington, Ohio, United States.
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- Maud Packard in household of George Packard, "United States Census, 1900"
- Grace Maud Paccard, "Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940"
- Maud Packard, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1885 · The First Skyscraper
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English pak(e) ‘pack, bundle’ + the Anglo-Norman French pejorative suffix -ard, probably a derogatory occupational name for a peddler.
English: pejorative derivative of the Middle English personal name Pack .
Probably also an Americanized form of German Packert, Päckert, from ancient Germanic personal names formed with a word meaning ‘battle’ or ‘to fight’; or a variant of Packer 2 (with excrescent -t).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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