When Melvira Patience Barker was born on 9 December 1870, in Randolph, Indiana, United States, her father, John Rittenhouse Barker, was 22 and her mother, Hanna T Mayo, was 16. She lived in Randolph, Ward Township, Randolph, Indiana, United States in 1870 and Ward Township, Randolph, Indiana, United States in 1880. She died on 2 November 1889, in Randolph, Indiana, United States, at the age of 18, and was buried in Sugar Plain Cemetery, Thorntown, Sugar Creek Township, Boone, Indiana, United States.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
A federal law which reversed most of the penalties on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.
The First official World's Fair, was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. 37 Countries provided venues for all to see.
English: occupational name for a tanner of leather, from Middle English barkere ‘tanner’, tree bark having been used as the tanning agent.
English: occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle English berker, bercher (Old French berchier, bercher, berkier, berker, Late Latin berbicarius, from berbex ‘ram’, genitive berbicis). With the change of -ar- to -er- in Middle English, this became indistinguishable from the preceding name (see 1 above).
Americanized form of German Berger or Barger .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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