Brief Life History of Pinell Pixley
When Pinell Pixley Drake was born on 5 October 1871, in Ohio, United States, his father, Joseph Drake, was 41 and his mother, Eleanor Clement, was 38. He married Lillian Adella Viers on 18 February 1893, in Portage, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 9 November 1899, in Boston, Summit, Ohio, United States, at the age of 28, and was buried in Hudson, Summit, Ohio, United States.
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- Pinell P. Drake, "United States Census, 1880"
- Pinnel Drake, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Pinell C Drake, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
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World Events (8)
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
1872 · The Amnesty Act
A federal law which reversed most of the penalties on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English drake, either ‘drake, male duck’ (compare Duck ) or ‘dragon’ (Old English draca ‘snake, dragon’ or the cognate Old Norse draki), including an emblematic dragon on a flag (compare Dragon ). Both the Old English and the Old Norse forms are from Latin draco ‘snake, monster’; its sense as a nickname is unclear but it may have had the sense ‘standard bearer’. The name was taken to Ireland in the 13th century and reinforced by later English settlers in the 17th century.
German: from Low German drake ‘dragon’, familiar as image on signboards, hence a topographic or habitational name referring to a house or inn with such signboard.
Dutch: variant, mostly Americanized and Flemish, of Draak, a cognate of 2 above, from draak (Middle Dutch drake) ‘dragon’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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