Brief Life History of Wentworth Wyman
When Wentworth Wyman Vickery was born on 11 September 1843, in Weymouth, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Asa Walker Vickery, was 31 and his mother, Letitia Corning, was 32. He married Orice Augusta Rarick on 24 August 1864, in Kendall, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He immigrated to Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1851 and lived in Pleasant Valley Township, Cowley, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Pleasant Valley, Cowley, Kansas, United States in 1910. He died on 17 June 1918, in Winfield, Cowley, Kansas, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Winfield, Cowley, Kansas, United States.
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- Went* Wickery, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Wentworth Wyman Vickery - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Wentworth Wyman Vickery
- Wentworth Vickery, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1860 · Abraham Lincoln Elected President
Abraham Lincoln was Elected President of the United States in November of 1860
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English (Somerset and Devon): occupational name from Middle English vicari(e) ‘substitute’ (from Latin vicarius), used for example for the office of a lieutenant or cleric. It may also sometimes have been used as a topographic name from the residence of a vicar. The English surname is also established in Cork, Ireland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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