Brief Life History of Edward A
When Edward A Keck was born in April 1894, in Oklahoma, United States, his father, John Christian Keck, was 32 and his mother, Dora Neal Craddock, was 23. He lived in Paoli, Chickasaw Nation Reservation, Indian Territory, United States in 1900 and Tiger Township, Creek, Oklahoma, United States in 1920.
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- Edwan Kick in household of John C Kick, "United States Census, 1900"
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World Events (8)
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1907
Oklahoma is the 46th state.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
English (Gloucestershire): nickname from the Middle English reflex of the Old Norse personal name Keikr (from Old West Scandinavian keikr ‘bent backwards’) or Kekkja.
English (Gloucestershire): nickname, possibly from keck, backformed from kex, used through much of southern England as the name of a range of umbelliferous plants having a hollow stalk when dried, for instance cow parsley, cow parsnip, and hemlock, as well as teasel (with parallels in Scandinavia).
German: nickname from Middle High German kēc ‘lively, active’ (cognate of English quick), which later changed its meaning to ‘bold, forward, fresh’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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