When Adoniram Judson Packard was born on 26 July 1840, in Norridgewock, Somerset, Maine, United States, his father, Rev Lucius Alden Packard, was 38 and his mother, Cynthia Burrill, was 36. He married Senna Dougherty about 1864, in Maine, United States. He lived in Somerset, Maine, United States in 1860 and Newman Judicial Township, Stanislaus, California, United States in 1880. He died on 28 May 1903, in Newman, Stanislaus, California, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Hills Ferry Cemetery, Newman, Stanislaus, California, United States.
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The Webster-Ashburton Treaty was signed on August 9, 1842 and resolved the border issues between the United States and British North American colonies which had caused the Aroostook War. The treaty contained several agreements and concessions. It called for an end on the overseas slave trade and proposed that both parties share the Great Lakes. It also reaffirmed the location of the westward frontier border (near the Rocky Mountains) as well as the border between Lake Superior and Lake of the Woods. The treaty was signed by Daniel Webster (United States Secretary of State) and Alexander Baring (British Diplomat, 1st Baron Ashburton).
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: from Middle English pak(e) ‘pack, bundle’ + the Anglo-Norman French pejorative suffix -ard, probably a derogatory occupational name for a peddler.
English: pejorative derivative of the Middle English personal name Pack .
Probably also an Americanized form of German Packert, Päckert, from ancient Germanic personal names formed with a word meaning ‘battle’ or ‘to fight’; or a variant of Packer 2 (with excrescent -t).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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