When Clarica “Clara” Newkirk was born on 10 November 1853, in Friendsville, Wabash, Illinois, United States, her father, Zachariah Newkirk, was 37 and her mother, Eliza Ann Greathouse, was 29. She married James Henry Buchanan on 5 June 1873, in Wabash, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Wabash, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Wabash Precinct, Wabash, Illinois, United States for about 30 years. She died on 17 November 1930, in Allendale, Wabash, Illinois, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Armstrong Cemetery, Wabash Precinct, Wabash, Illinois, United States.
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William Rand opened a small printing shop in Chicago. Doing most of the work himself for the first two years he decided to hire some help. Rand Hired Andrew McNally, an Irish Immigrant, to work in his shop. After doing business with the Chicago Tribune, Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. Years later, Rand and McNally established Rand McNally & Co after purchasing the Tribune's printing business. They focused mainly on printing tickets, complete railroad guides and timetables for the booming railroad industry around the city. What made the company successful was the detailed maps of roadways, along with directions to certain places. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways and erected many of the roadside highway signs that have been adopted by state and federal highway authorities. The company is still making and updating the world maps that are looked at every day.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Americanized form of Dutch Nijkerk or Nieuwerkerk: habitational name from Nijkerk, a city in Gelderland whose name is itself a dialect variant of Nieuwkerk, or a topographic name denoting someone living at the ‘new church’.
Americanized form of German Neukirch . Compare Neikirk .
History: Many of the Newkirks are descendants of (Johann) Heinrich Neukirch, born c. 1708 in Germany. Other branches of the family bear the surnames Neikirk and Nikirk .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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