When Richard Thomas King was born on 8 June 1803, in Casey, Butler, Kentucky, United States, his father, Engles King, was 30 and his mother, Jane Elizabeth Humphrey, was 21. He married Elizabeth Douglas on 9 August 1827, in Lincoln, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Union Township, Parke, Indiana, United States in 1850. He died in 1880, in Clinton, Clinton Township, Vermillion, Indiana, United States, at the age of 77.
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Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
Butler county was formed on 18 January 1810 from portions of Logan and Ohio Counties. It was the 53rd county organized in Kentucky, and was named for General Richard Butler (1743-1791) a Revolutionary War soldier from Pennsylvania. General Butler was killed by Indians in the defeat of St. Clair.
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
English: nickname from Middle English king ‘king’ (Old English cyning, cyng), perhaps acquired by someone with kingly qualities or as a pageant name by someone who had acted the part of a king or had been chosen as the master of ceremonies or ‘king’ of an event such as a tournament, festival or folk ritual. In North America, the surname King has absorbed several European cognates and equivalents with the same meaning, for example German König (see Koenig ) and Küng, French Roy , Slovenian, Croatian, or Serbian Kralj , Polish Krol . It is also very common among African Americans. It is also found as an artificial Jewish surname.
English: occasionally from the Middle English personal name King, originally an Old English nickname from the vocabulary word cyning, cyng ‘king’.
Irish: adopted for a variety of names containing the syllable rí (which means ‘king’ in Irish).
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