When Paul Wakefield Packard was born on 6 March 1896, in Goshen, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Edward Clinton Packard, was 48 and his mother, Zelia Abby Wakefield, was 42. He married Ethel Frances Brooks on 9 January 1918, in Goshen, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Goshen, Goshen, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States in 1900. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 3 November 1930, in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 34, and was buried in Goshen, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
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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