Brief Life History of Martha Ann
When Martha Ann Spicer was born in July 1849, in Illinois, United States, her father, Rawser Spicer, was 43 and her mother, Maria Mariah S Tarr, was 37. She married Elijah D Zinn on 3 March 1875, in Adams, Burton Township, Adams, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Loraine, Adams, Illinois, United States in 1900. She died in 1927, in Keene Township, Adams, Illinois, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Keene Township, Adams, Illinois, United States.
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- Martha Zinn in household of Elija D Zinn, "United States Census, 1900"
- Martha Spicer, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Martha Spicer in entry for Goldy Futhey, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
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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.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English (London and Kent): occupational name from Middle English spicer ‘dealer in spices, apothecary’ (Old French espicier, especier, Late Latin speciarius, an agent derivative of species ‘spice, groceries, merchandise’). See Spice .
Jewish (from Poland): variant of Spitzer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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