Brief Life History of Hiram
When Hiram Packard was born on 5 September 1816, in Goshen, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Willard Packard, was 44 and his mother, Bathsheba Smith, was 38. He married Lurane Anderson Carpenter on 20 February 1845, in Goshen, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Goshen, Goshen, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States in 1894. He died on 13 May 1894, in Goshen, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Goshen, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Hiram Packard, "Massachusetts State Census, 1855"
- Hiram Packard, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Hiram Packard, "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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