Brief Life History of Thomas J
When Thomas J Turk was born about 1854, in Tioga Township, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Henry Benjamin Turk, was 46 and his mother, Delilah Hamilton, was 39. He lived in Farmington Township, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860 and Iowa, United States in 1870.
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- Thomas J Turk in household of Henry B Turk, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Thomas J Turk - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Thomas J Turk
- Thomas J Turk in household of H B Turk, "United States Census, 1870"
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1857 · The State Capital moves to Des Moines
The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English (mainly Gloucestershire) and Dutch; German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) (also Türk): from Middle English, Old French turc, Middle High and Low German Turc ‘Turk’, all ultimately from Turkish Türk. In theory this could be an ethnic name but, both in England and northwest Europe, it is generally a nickname for a man with black hair and a swarthy complexion or a cruel, rowdy, or unruly man. The English surname may also be from a medieval personal name, a back-formation from Turkel , misanalyzed as containing the Old French diminutive suffix -el. The Dutch and German surname also represents a topographic or habitational name referring to a house name derived from the use of a picture of a Turk as a house sign. It is also found as a nickname for someone who had taken part in the wars against the Turks. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine). Compare Turck and Tuerk .
Slovenian (also Türk) and Croatian: nickname for a refugee from the Turks in the 15th and 16th centuries, or e.g. for someone who behaved or looked like a Turk, from an old vernacular spelling of the Slovenian and dialectal Croatian ethnic name Turek ‘Turk’. Refugees were not ethnic Turks, but Croats and Serbs from ‘Turkey’, i.e. the Ottoman Empire, which included whole Bosnia and parts of Croatia. The Slovenian surname may in some cases also be a nickname from any of various plants named tur(e)k. Compare Turck , Turek , and Tuerk .
Turkish (Türk): ethnic or ornamental name from Türk ‘Turk’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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