Brief Life History of Elmer P
When Elmer P King was born on 15 December 1853, in Mantua, Portage, Ohio, United States, his father, John Russell King, was 43 and his mother, Hannah Amelia Montgomery, was 40. He married Mrs King from 1880 to 1900, in United States. He lived in Blackfoot, Oneida, Idaho, United States in 1880 and Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States in 1900. In 1880, at the age of 27, his occupation is listed as teamster per 1880 u.s. census in Blackfoot, Oneida, Idaho, United States. He died in 1910, in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 57.
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- Elmer King in household of Jas F Newton, "United States Census, 1880"
- Elmer P. King, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
- Elmer King in household of John T Sexton, "United States Census, 1910"
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World Events (8)
1859
Historical Boundaries: 1859: Wyandotte, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Wyandotte, Kansas, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English king ‘king’ (Old English cyning, cyng), perhaps acquired by someone with kingly qualities or as a pageant name by someone who had acted the part of a king or had been chosen as the master of ceremonies or ‘king’ of an event such as a tournament, festival or folk ritual. In North America, the surname King has absorbed several European cognates and equivalents with the same meaning, for example German König (see Koenig ) and Küng, French Roy , Slovenian, Croatian, or Serbian Kralj , Polish Krol . It is also very common among African Americans. It is also found as an artificial Jewish surname.
English: occasionally from the Middle English personal name King, originally an Old English nickname from the vocabulary word cyning, cyng ‘king’.
Irish: adopted for a variety of names containing the syllable rí (which means ‘king’ in Irish).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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