When Augustus Collins Herrick was born on 16 June 1840, in Norwich, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Alvin Herrick, was 41 and his mother, Paulina Leffingwell, was 37. He married Mary Alice Teters on 10 March 1873, in Big Valley Judicial Township, Lassen, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Lassen, California, United States in 1910 and Big Valley Judicial Township, Lassen, California, United States in 1920. He died on 13 June 1922, in Bieber, Lassen, California, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Lassen, California, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: from the Old Norse personal name Eiríkr, Old Danish, Old Swedish Erik, itself from Proto-Scandinavian ain- ‘one, select’ + rík- ‘rule(r)’ + prosthetic H-.
Irish (Cork): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEirc ‘descendant of Erc’, a personal name meaning ‘speckled, dark red’ or ‘salmon’, and borne by a Christian saint. In Munster and Ulster this name has been changed to Harkin .
History: The English poet Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was the son of a wealthy London goldsmith, whose family had a long history in the town of Leicester. DNA analysis suggests that the modern surname is monogenetic, i.e. from a single eponymous bearer. The earliest known bearer of the name in Leicester was John Eirich, recorded as a burgess there in 1211. Leicester was one of the headquarters of the Viking army that conquered and settled the eastern midlands in the late 9th century, leading to the English adoption of many Old Norse personal names, such as Eirikr, as personal names. The initial aspirate is first recorded in the name of Nicholas Heyryke, recorded as a Leicester burgess in 1524.
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