When Mary Jane Dill was born on 25 April 1855, in Rock Island, Rock Island, Illinois, United States, her father, John Dill, was 21 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Swart, was 18. She married John Parker in 1871, in Cass, Jones, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. She lived in Iowa, United States in 1870. She died in May 1887, in Harlan Township, Fayette, Iowa, United States, at the age of 32.
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William Rand opened a small printing shop in Chicago. Doing most of the work himself for the first two years he decided to hire some help. Rand Hired Andrew McNally, an Irish Immigrant, to work in his shop. After doing business with the Chicago Tribune, Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. Years later, Rand and McNally established Rand McNally & Co after purchasing the Tribune's printing business. They focused mainly on printing tickets, complete railroad guides and timetables for the booming railroad industry around the city. What made the company successful was the detailed maps of roadways, along with directions to certain places. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways and erected many of the roadside highway signs that have been adopted by state and federal highway authorities. The company is still making and updating the world maps that are looked at every day.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
German: from a pet form of the personal name Dietrich .
German: metonymic occupational name for a sawyer, from Middle High German dill(e) ‘(floor)board’.
German: habitational name from Dill (Rhineland-Palatinate) or Dille (Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia).
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