When George Everhart Kalb was born on 21 May 1851, in Rushville, Fairfield, Ohio, United States, his father, Elijah Kalb, was 48 and his mother, Rebecca Tenant, was 38. He married Ruth A. Siniff on 31 December 1874, in Fairfield, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Richland, Fairfield, Ohio, United States for about 20 years and Fairfield, Ohio, United States in 1935. He died on 19 January 1943, in Mill Hall, Clinton, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Rushville, Fairfield, Ohio, 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.
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
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.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German kalp ‘calf’, German Kalb, hence either a metonymic occupational name for someone who reared calves or for a butcher, or a nickname for a meek or foolish person.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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