Brief Life History of Barnabas Newton
When Barnabas Newton Cole was born on 11 May 1842, in Marion, Illinois, United States, his father, Charles M Cole, was 20 and his mother, Mary Eagan, was 22. He married Mary Sparlin on 12 March 1871, in Seneca, Newton, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Collin, Texas, United States in 1860 and Justice Precinct 7, Cooke, Texas, United States in 1880. He died on 15 January 1892, in Callisburg, Cooke, Texas, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Union Hill Cemetery, Cooke, Texas, United States.
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- Barney N Cole, "United States Census, 1880"
- Barnabus N Call, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Barnabus Newton Cole, "Find A Grave Index"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
Historical Boundaries: 1846: Collin, Texas, United States
1856 · The Largest Map Company in the World
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.
Name Meaning
English: usually from the Middle English and Old French personal name Col(e), Coll(e), Coul(e), a pet form of Nicol (see Nichol and Nicholas ), a common personal name from the mid 13th century onward. English families with this name migrated to Scotland and to Ulster (especially Fermanagh).
English: occasionally perhaps from a different (early) Middle English personal name Col, of native English or Scandinavian origin. Old English Cola was originally a nickname from Old English col ‘coal’ in the sense ‘coal-black (of hair), swarthy’ and is the probable source of most of the examples in Domesday Book. In the northern and eastern counties of England settled by Vikings in the 10th and 11th centuries, alternative sources are Old Norse Kolr and Koli (either from a nickname ‘the swarthy one’ or a short form of names in Kol-), and Old Norse Kollr (from a nickname, perhaps ‘the bald one’).
English: nickname for someone with swarthy skin or black hair, from Middle English col, coul(e) ‘charcoal, coal’ (Old English col).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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