When Mary Frances Gaar was born on 18 September 1850, in York Township, Carroll, Illinois, United States, her father, John P Gaar, was 41 and her mother, Elizabeth Shoemaker, was 37. She married George Gabriel Lambert on 1 January 1868, in Morrison, Whiteside, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Highland Township, Guthrie, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Waconda Township, Caddo, Oklahoma, United States in 1920. She died on 3 August 1935, in Hinton, Caddo, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Hinton Cemetery, Hinton, Caddo, Oklahoma, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1851: Guthrie, Iowa, United States
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.
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.
Austrian German: nickname for a person who was ready and willing (to do a task), from Middle High German gar ‘ready, prepared’.
Perhaps also Dutch (Van de Gaar): topographic name from Middle Dutch gader, gaer ‘gate’, in a habitational sense e.g. from De Gader near Hasselt.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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