When Frances Bird McLean was born on 2 July 1853, in Illinois, United States, her father, Archibald Edward McLean, was 35 and her mother, Lucy Elizabeth Bird, was 32. She married James Caffrey on 11 November 1872, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 7 daughters. She lived in Central Township, Jefferson, Missouri, United States for about 30 years and Christine, Atascosa, Texas, United States in 1920. She died on 1 December 1927, in Texas, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Shiloh Cemetery, Atascosa, Texas, United States.
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William Rand opened a small printing shop in Chicago. Doing most of the work himself for the first two years he decided to hire some help. Rand Hired Andrew McNally, an Irish Immigrant, to work in his shop. After doing business with the Chicago Tribune, Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. Years later, Rand and McNally established Rand McNally & Co after purchasing the Tribune's printing business. They focused mainly on printing tickets, complete railroad guides and timetables for the booming railroad industry around the city. What made the company successful was the detailed maps of roadways, along with directions to certain places. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways and erected many of the roadside highway signs that have been adopted by state and federal highway authorities. The company is still making and updating the world maps that are looked at every day.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Eáin, ‘son of the servant (i.e. devotee) of (Saint) John’. Compare Irish McAloon and McGlone .
History: This is the name of a major Scottish clan traditionally associated with the island of Mull, which claims descent from Gille Eáin na Tuaidh (‘Gillean of the Battleaxe’), who lived in the 13th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesWhen Alys was a baby Frances felt the need to see her father. She and her brother-in-law Charles Caffrey saddled up and forged the high water that was between where she lived and he lived. Frances and …
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