When Mary Jane Barker was born on 3 November 1852, in Mariposa, Victoria, Ontario, Canada, her father, William Barker, was 37 and her mother, Sarah Nellist, was 25. She married Jacob Fisher Wagar on 10 September 1872, in Oil City, Lambton, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Wheatfield Township, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States in 1910 and Gilby, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States in 1920. She died on 30 November 1934, in Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Gilby, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1873: Grand Forks, Dakota Territory, United States 1889: Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States
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: 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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