Brief Life History of Mary Elizabeth
Mary Elizabeth Chapman was born in November 1853, in Wayne, Michigan, United States. She married George Edwin Mack on 20 August 1873, in Ottawa, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Farmington Township, Stafford, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Stafford, Kansas, United States for about 15 years. She died in 1934, in Macksville, Stafford, Kansas, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Macksville, Stafford, Kansas, United States.
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- Mary E Mack, "Kansas State Census, 1905"
- Mary E. Chapman, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
- Mary E. Mack, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1854 · Creation of the Republican Party
A debate continues over the location of the creation of the Republican Party. Some sources claim the party was formed in Ripon, Wisconsin, on February 28, 1854. Others claim the first meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Michigan, on July 6, 1854, where the Republican Party was officially organized. Over 1,000 people were present and candidates were selected for the party, thus making it the first Republican convention.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a merchant or trader, Middle English chap(pe)man, chepman, Old English cēapmann, cēpemann, a compound of cēap ‘barter, bargain, price, property’ + mann ‘man’.
Jewish: adopted probably for a like-sounding or like-meaning name in some other European language; see for example Kaufman .
History: This name was brought independently to North America from England by numerous different bearers from the 17th century onward. John Chapmen (sic) was one of the free planters who assented to the ‘Fundamental Agreement’ of the New Haven Colony on June 4, 1639.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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