When Ival Franklin was born on 17 October 1887, in Howel, Livingston, Michigan, United States, his father, John D. Franklin, was 39 and his mother, Viola A. Colby, was 36. He died in 1887, in Livonia, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 0.
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English: status name from Middle English frankeleyn ‘freeman, freeholder, land-owner of free but not noble birth’ (Anglo-Norman French fraunclein). In general, he was a gentleman ranked above the main body of minor freeholders but below a knight or a member of the nobility.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames, such as Frankel .
History: The American statesman and scientist Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) was the son of Josiah Franklin, a chandler (dealer in soap and candles), who had emigrated c. 1682 from Ecton, Northamptonshire, to Boston, MA, where his son was born.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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