Brief Life History of Kate Myrtle
When Kate Myrtle Elder was born on 4 June 1862, in Kinmundy, Marion, Illinois, United States, her father, John Boyd Elder, was 33 and her mother, Bridget Bedelia Toolen, was 27. She married Walter Irving Larkin on 2 February 1888, in Sedgwick, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Illinois, United States in 1870. She died on 24 October 1942, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Kinmundy Cemetery, Kinmundy Township, Marion, Illinois, United States.
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- Katie E Larkin in household of Bridget Elder, "United States Census, 1900"
- Kate E. Lockwood, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Kate M Elder, "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · The Chicago Water Tower
The Chicago water tower was built out of Lemont limestone by William W. Boyington and was used for firefighting and also drawing clean water from Lake Michigan. The tower gained prominence after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Some believe that the tower was the only building to survive the Great Chicago Fire, but a few other buildings survived alongside the tower. The tower has become a symbol of old Chicago and how the city recovered from the fire. The tower has undergone only two renovations since 1913.
1885 · The World's First Skyscraper
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
Name Meaning
Scottish: distinguishing nickname from Middle English and Older Scots elder ‘parent; older, senior person’, perhaps in some cases denoting the older of two bearers of the same personal name. It may have been used also to denote an elder of a church, a senior and respected member of the congregation. Compare Senior .
English: in southeastern England, this may be a variant of Helder .
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Elter , which has the same meaning as 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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