When Rebecca Smedley King was born on 10 July 1844, in Little Britain, Little Britain Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, James King, was 27 and her mother, Deborah Stephens, was 25. She married Addison Wood Naylor on 9 January 1864, in Washington, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States for about 20 years. She died on 3 October 1929, in Alta Bates Medical Center, Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 85.
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Historical Boundaries: 1846: Polk, Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Polk, Iowa, United States
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
English: nickname from Middle English king ‘king’ (Old English cyning, cyng), perhaps acquired by someone with kingly qualities or as a pageant name by someone who had acted the part of a king or had been chosen as the master of ceremonies or ‘king’ of an event such as a tournament, festival or folk ritual. In North America, the surname King has absorbed several European cognates and equivalents with the same meaning, for example German König (see Koenig ) and Küng, French Roy , Slovenian, Croatian, or Serbian Kralj , Polish Krol . It is also very common among African Americans. It is also found as an artificial Jewish surname.
English: occasionally from the Middle English personal name King, originally an Old English nickname from the vocabulary word cyning, cyng ‘king’.
Irish: adopted for a variety of names containing the syllable rí (which means ‘king’ in Irish).
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