Asa Holmes Packard

Brief Life History of Asa Holmes

When Asa Holmes Packard was born on 22 May 1847, in Norridgewock, Somerset, Maine, United States, his father, Rev Lucius Alden Packard, was 45 and his mother, Cynthia Burrill, was 43. He married Viola Hunsicker on 19 March 1881, in Stanislaus, California, United States. He lived in Somerset, Maine, United States in 1860 and Sacramento, California, United States in 1900. He died on 3 January 1937, in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Asa Holmes Packard
1847–1937
Carrie Evaline Wilgus
1857–1952
Marriage: 19 November 1891
Clarence Eugene Packard
1882–1956
Elwood Judson Packard
1893–1896
Cynthia Ann Packard
1894–1976
Artice Edward Packard
1896–1896
George H Packard
1898–1958
Olney Pacard
1900–
Percy Magill Packard
1901–1989
Ella Elaine Packard
1909–1985

Sources (41)

  • Asa Packard in household of Lucius Packard, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Aras H Packard, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
  • Asa H Packard, "California Death Index, 1905-1939"

World Events (8)

1850

Historical Boundaries: 1850: Sacramento, California, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1872 · The First National Park

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Name Meaning

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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