When Evelyn Johns was born in 1843, in Wisconsin, United States, her father, Amos Dike Johns, was 31 and her mother, Beaulah Walston, was 37. She lived in Walworth, Walworth, Wisconsin, United States in 1850.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
A debate continues over the location of the creation of the Republican Party. Some sources claim that the party was formed in Ripon, Wisconsin, on February 28, 1854. Others claim the first meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Michigan, on July 6, 1854, where the Republican Party was officially organized. Over 1,000 people were present and candidates were selected for the party, thus making it the first Republican convention.
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.
English and Welsh: variant of John with genitival or excrescent -s, or a variant of Jones . It is common in Cornwall and Devon, south Wales, the West Midlands and Lancashire. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, such as Albanian Gjonaj or any other Albanian patronymic from the personal name Gjon ‘John’ and its variants or derivatives; see also examples at Johnson .
German: patronymic from John or a shortened form of Johannes .
Americanized form of Swiss German Schantz .
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