Brief Life History of Edgar Dexter
When Edgar Dexter Parkhurst was born on 31 October 1855, in Mainesburg, Sullivan Township, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Philemon Parkhurst, was 25 and his mother, Rosilla M. Fox, was 22. He had at least 2 sons and 3 daughters with Grace Marian Simons. He lived in New York, United States in 1870 and Scipio, Cayuga, New York, United States for about 35 years. He died on 28 December 1930, in Moravia, Cayuga, New York, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Scipio, Cayuga, New York, United States.
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Sources (13)
- Edgar I Rackhurst, "United States Census, 1900"
- Edgar D Parkhurst, "New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956"
- E.D. Parkhurst in entry for Walter Lee Teeter and Helen Louise Parkhurst, "New York, Church and Civil Marriages, 1704-1995"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
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.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called Parkhurst, such as Parkhurst in Buxted (Sussex), which is recorded as Perkehurst in 1439, and Parkhurst in Abinger (Surrey), which is recorded as Parkherst in 1464. The placenames derive from Middle English park ‘park, enclosure’ (Old French parc) or parrok ‘enclosure, paddock’ (Old English pearroc) + hirste ‘hillock, copse’ (Old English hyrst).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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