When Anna Maria Nicholson was born in May 1858, in Township of Coe, Rock Island, Illinois, United States, her father, Miles M Nicholson, was 45 and her mother, Nancy McLaughlin, was 26. She married John J Christy on 9 December 1878, in Davenport, Scott, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Stephenson, Rock Island, Illinois, United States in 1910 and Richmond, Virginia, United States in 1965. She died on 24 April 1916, in Highland Springs, Henrico, Virginia, United States, at the age of 57.
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Illinois contributed 250,000 soldiers to the Union Army, ranking it fourth in terms of the total men fighting for a single state. Troops mainly fought in the Western side of the Appalachian Mountains, but a few regiments played important roles in the East side. Several thousand Illinoisians died during the war. No major battles were fought in the state, although several towns became sites for important supply depots and navy yards. Not everyone in the state supported the war and there were calls for secession in Southern Illinois several residents. However, the movement for secession soon died after the proposal was blocked.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English (northern) and Scottish: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Nic(h)olas or the vernacular form Nic(h)ol + son; see Nichol , Nicholas . In Scotland the name was sometimes substituted for McNichol .
Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, and North German Nicolaisen or Nikolaisen , or of the Swedish cognate Niklasson, patronymics from equivalents of the personal name Nicholas .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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