Brief Life History of Edward Criton
When Edward Criton King was born on 22 December 1840, in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, his father, Artemus King, was 41 and his mother, Sophia Granger, was 38. He married Rossette Ellen Moses on 24 December 1863. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 6 June 1921, in his hometown, at the age of 80, and was buried in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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- Edward C King in household of Artemas King, "United States Census, 1850"
- Edward C. King, "New Jersey, Marriages, 1670-1980"
- Edward C. King, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1848 · Slavery is Abolished
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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