Brief Life History of Marietta
When Marietta Kemp was born on 5 December 1850, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, her father, William H Kemp, was 31 and her mother, Elizabeth J Horner, was 18. She married David Austin Russell on 13 May 1874, in Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in DuPage, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Downers Grove, DuPage, Illinois, United States in 1920. She died on 23 September 1925, in Hinsdale, DuPage, Illinois, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Hinsdale, DuPage, Illinois, United States.
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- Marretta Kemp in household of Wm H Kemp, "United States Census, 1860"
- Maryetta Russell, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Marietta M. Kemp, "Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920"
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1855 · Lager Beer Riot
The Lager Beer Riot came at a time in Chicago's history where large waves of Irish and German immigrants moved to the city. The Riot was started because the Mayor of the city renewed enforcement of an old liquor ordinance mandating that taverns be closed on Sundays and to raise the cost of a license to sell liquor from $50 to $300 each year. This didn't sit well with the German immigrants because they felt like it was directed towards them and their heritage. There was only one death throughout the time of the riot, though protesters claimed that it was more.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Dutch, and North German: status name for a champion, Middle English and Middle Low German kempe. In the Middle Ages a champion was a professional fighter on behalf of others; for example the King's Champion, at the coronation, had the duty of issuing a general challenge to battle to anyone who denied the king's right to the throne. The Middle English word corresponds to Old English cempa and Old Norse kempa ‘warrior’; both these go back to ancient Germanic campo ‘warrior’, which is the source of the Dutch and North German name, corresponding to High German Kampf .
Dutch and North German (North Rhine-Westphalia): from the personal name Kempe, Kampe; see 1 above.
Dutch and Flemish: metonymic occupational name for someone who grew or processed hemp, from Middle Dutch canep ‘hemp’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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