When James H Chalk was born in 1856, in Wyandotte, Kansas, United States, his father, Ranson Robinson Chalk, was 37 and his mother, Caroline Jumper, was 30. He lived in Wyandotte Township, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States in 1870.
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Historical Boundaries: 1859: Wyandotte, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Wyandotte, Kansas, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
English (Hampshire and Wiltshire): habitational name from Bower Chalke or Broad Chalke (Wiltshire), or Chalk (Kent), or occasionally a topographic name from residence on or near a chalk down, from Old English cealc ‘chalk’, here ‘chalky soil’, or an Old English cealce ‘chalk down’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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