When Louis A. Wilkins was born on 2 October 1872, in Troy Grove, LaSalle, Illinois, United States, his father, William Armitage Wilkins, was 43 and his mother, Perthena Elizabeth Wixom, was 40. He married Ida A. Biggin on 18 July 1900, in Buena Vista, Iowa, United States. He lived in Elk Township, Buena Vista, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Hayes Township, Buena Vista, Iowa, United States for about 10 years. He died in 1951, in Iowa, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Storm Lake Cemetery, Storm Lake, Buena Vista, Iowa, United States.
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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.
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
Also known as the Chicago World's Fair, The Exposition was held to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World. The centerpiece of the Fair was a large water pool that represented Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic to the Americas. The Fair had a profound effect on new architecture designs, sanitation advancement, and the arts. The Fairgrounds were given the nickname the White City due to its lavish paint and materials used to constuct it. Over 27 million people attended the fair during its six-month of operation. Among many of the invetions exhibited there was the first Ferris wheel built to rival the Eiffel Tower in France.
English (West Midlands and southern England): variant of Wilkin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
North German and Dutch: variant of Wilkens .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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