When Dr. William Peirce Painter was born on 3 February 1842, in Concord, Fannett Township, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Darwin Painter, was 21 and his mother, Sarah Peirce, was 21. He married Margaret Middleton on 28 April 1886, in Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Darby Borough, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900 and Darby Monthly Meeting, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910. He died on 14 February 1919, in Darby Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Friends Southwestern Burial Ground, Upper Darby Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Sacramento, California, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: from Middle English peintour, painter, peintir, penter, pointour (Old French peintour, paintour) ‘painter of images (on walls, screens, shields, etc.), colorist (of statues, figurines, chests, etc.), artist’. In the Middle Ages the walls of both great and minor churches were covered with painted decorations, and Reaney and Wilson note that in 1308 Hugh le Peyntour and Peter the Pavier were employed ‘making and painting the pavement’ at Saint Stephen's Chapel, Westminster. The name is widespread in England.
Americanized form of German Bender . Compare Bainter .
Germanized or Americanized form of Slovenian Pajntar or Panjtar, topographic names from the field name Pajnta or Na Pajnti, which is derived from Middle High German biunt(e) ‘fenced agricultural land’ (compare German Paintner ), or perhaps from Bavarian Middle High German pant ‘band’ (compare Panter 4).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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