When Agnes C. Greenman was born in 1849, in Illinois, United States, her father, Lieutenant John Wesley Greenman, was 52 and her mother, Mary A Stevens, was 47. She married Albion Gustavus Burnap on 25 August 1862, in LaSalle, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Wheatland, Vernon, Wisconsin, United States in 1860 and Hopkinton, Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1881. She died on 6 July 1881, in Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 32.
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A debate continues over the location of the creation of the Republican Party. Some sources claim that the party was formed in Ripon, Wisconsin, on February 28, 1854. Others claim the first meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Michigan, on July 6, 1854, where the Republican Party was officially organized. Over 1,000 people were present and candidates were selected for the party, thus making it the first Republican convention.
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.
Abraham Lincoln's goal was to be different than the previous Senators of Illinois and voice his opinion in how he saw the State and the United States start to drift apart in the different ideology on what was right and what was wrong. Even though it would become an unsuccessful campaign strategy to win the senate seat, to this day it is one of the most famous speeches of US politics.
English (Wiltshire): from Middle English grene ‘green’ + man ‘man’, a nickname from the Green Man of folklore, or a topographic name for someone who lived by the village green. Compare Green .
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Grunemann or Grünemann: topographic name for someone who lived by the village green (compare above and Greenland ), or a habitational name for someone from any of numerous places called Grüna, Grünau, or Grüne.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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