Brief Life History of Laura
When Laura Briscoe was born on 28 November 1852, in St. Clair, Illinois, United States, her father, Jeremiah Briscoe, was 42 and her mother, Elizabeth Cloud, was 37. She married William Henry Harrison Ghrist on 4 July 1870, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Illinois, United States in 1870 and Jackson, Missouri, United States in 1910. She died on 27 February 1924, in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States.
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- Laure E Ghrist in household of Fred Ghrist, "United States Census, 1910"
- Laura E Easland in the Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805
- Laura E. Ghrist, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1871
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
Name Meaning
English (northern): habitational name from any of various places so named, including Briscoe in Hutton Mulgrave and Briscoe in Romaldkirk (both North Yorkshire), Brisco Rigg in Stainburn (Yorkshire), or Brisco in Saint Cuthbert Without and Briscoe in Saint John Beckermet (both Cumberland). Briscoe in Saint John Beckermet is named with Old Norse Bretaskógr ‘wood of the Britons’ (see Brett ). Brisco in Cumberland and Briscoe in North Yorkshire are named with Old Norse birki ‘birch’ + skógr ‘wood’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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