Brief Life History of John Anderson
When John Anderson Breeding was born on 14 June 1855, in Kentucky, United States, his father, William Davenport Breeding, was 20 and his mother, Elizabeth Grimes, was 18. He married Nancy Mariah Acree on 20 March 1881, in Adair, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 7 Columbia, Adair, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Columbia, Adair, Kentucky, United States in 1920. He died on 13 March 1927, in Adair, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Garlin, Adair, Kentucky, United States.
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Sources (18)
- John A breeding in household of william breeding, "United States Census, 1860"
- John Breeding, "Kentucky Births and Christenings, 1839-1960"
- John A. Breeding, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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World Events (8)
1861
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
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.
Name Meaning
North German: probably a patronymic from a now-lost ancient Germanic personal name, or a topographic name derived from Low German brēde ‘open field’. This surname is not found in Germany.
Alternatively, an Americanized form of some other similar (like-sounding) German surname, such as Breiding .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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