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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- 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"
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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
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
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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