When Enoch Marvin Brickey was born on 19 March 1861, in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States, his father, Peter Brickey, was 42 and his mother, Mahalia Archer Cleek, was 35. He married Ann Mary Spayth in June 1882, in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California, United States for about 10 years and Redwood City, San Mateo, California, United States for about 5 years. He died on 1 July 1954, in San Jose, Santa Clara, California, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
In some cases also a variant of Bricker , a surname of German origin.
Americanized form of northern French Brique, Briquet, or Bricquet: nickname for a hunter, from Old French briquet ‘dog used in fox and badger hunting’, or for a madman, from a diminutive of Old French bric ‘mad, crazy’.
History: The ancestor of almost all of the Brickeys is Jean Bricquet alias John Brickey, who immigrated from France to SC in 1680s and later settled down in Westmoreland County, VA. Only on of his sons, Peter, had male children. Jean Bricquet is listed in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors.
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