When Matilda Josephine Merrick was born on 25 June 1855, in Greene, Illinois, United States, her father, Jonathan Merrick, was 28 and her mother, Elizabeth Groom, was 23. She married William Thomas Wilhite on 25 March 1879, in Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Bowen, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1910. She died on 10 October 1924, in Keokuk, Lee, Iowa, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Graham Cemetery, Hancock, Illinois, United States.
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Iwan Ries and Company is one of the oldest family owned tobacco companies in North America and was originally owned by Edward Hoffman. Realizing that he could not run the company alone, Hoffman recruited his nephew, Iwan Ries to join him. The name of the Company changed from E. Hoffman and Co. when Edward Hoffman retired in 1898.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Welsh: from the personal name Meuric, the Middle Welsh form of Maurice (see Morris ).
Irish: borrowed from Welsh. In Ireland, when this is not the Welsh name, it might be adopted for Irish Ó Mearadhaigh, see Merry 2.
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