Brief Life History of John Wright
When John Wright York was born on 20 July 1837, in Ohio, United States, his father, John P York, was 28 and his mother, Laura Parham, was 25. He married Mary Monica Kennedy on 6 May 1860, in Miami, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Washington Township, Miami, Indiana, United States in 1850 and Butler Township, Miami, Indiana, United States for about 40 years. He died on 27 August 1928, in Peru, Peru Township, Miami, Indiana, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Crider Cemetery, Miami, Indiana, United States.
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- John R York, "United States Census, 1870"
- John W York, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- John W York, "BillionGraves Index"
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1841
Historic Boundaries 1841: Miami, Indiana, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the city of York in northern England. The surname is now widespread throughout England. Originally, the city bore the Latin name Eburacum, which is probably from a Brittonic name meaning ‘yew-tree place’. This was altered by folk etymology to Old English Eoforwīc (from the elements eofor ‘wild boar’ + wīc ‘specialized farmstead’). This name was taken over by Scandinavian settlers, who altered it back to opacity in the form Jórvík or Jórk (English York, which became finally settled as the placename in the 13th century). The surname has also been adopted by Jews as an Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
In some cases also an American shortened and altered form of the East Slavic patronymic Yurkovich or its Croatian, Slovak, or Slovenian variants. Compare Yurk .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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