Brief Life History of John
When John Lakin was born on 25 August 1858, in Metcalfe Township, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada, his father, Thomas William Lakin, was 39 and his mother, Maria Brotherhood, was 38. He married Elizabeth Ann Burnett on 22 December 1880, in Metcalfe Township, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Detroit Ward 8, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1910. He died on 9 December 1930, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Metcalfe, Ottawa-Carleton, Ontario, Canada.
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- John Lakin, "United States Census, 1910"
- John Lakin, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
- John Lakin, "Michigan Death Certificates, 1921-1952"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1868 · The Railroad Refrigerator Car
During the mid-19th century, attempts were made to ship perishable products by rail. The Western Railroad of Massachusetts was the first to experiment with the concept, but it was only functional in cold weather. In 1868, William Davis, of Detroit, patented a refrigerator car that used a frozen mixture of ice and salt to keep everything cold for shipment. It could be used in all weather and in all seasons. He sold the design to George H. Hammond, a Detroit meat packer, who built a set of cars to transport his products to Boston using ice from the Great Lakes for cooling.
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
Americanized form of Jewish Leykin (from Belarus), a metronymic from Leyke, a pet form of the Yiddish female personal name Leye, from the Hebrew female personal name Lea, from which English Leah is derived (see Genesis 29: 16) + the Slavic possessive suffix -in.
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Lawkin, a diminutive of Law- (a pet form of the personal name Laurence; see Lawrence ). Compare Law 1 and Larkin .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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