When John Melvin Packard was born on 20 September 1839, in Ossian, Ossian, Livingston, New York, United States, his father, Arnold Packard, was 43 and his mother, Philena Smith, was 35. He married Paulina Elizabeth Canfield about 1859, in New York, United States. He lived in Allegany, New York, United States in 1850. He died in 1865, in Ossian, Ossian, Livingston, New York, United States, at the age of 26.
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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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