Edgar L. Wynkoop

Brief Life History of Edgar L.

When Edgar L. Wynkoop was born in 1864, in Loudoun, Virginia, United States, his father, Wiliam Cornelius Wynkoop, was 26 and his mother, Harriet Ann Jones, was 29. He lived in Scott, Fauquier, Virginia, United States in 1870.

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Wiliam Cornelius Wynkoop
1838–1890
Harriet Ann Jones
1835–1864
Robert Lee Wynkoop
1863–1932
Ida Bell Wynkoop
1863–1904
Edgar L. Wynkoop
1864–

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  • Edgar Wynkoop in household of Percilla C Jones, "United States Census, 1870"

World Events (8)

1864 · Arlington Cemetery

Arlington Cemetery is a military cemetery. It was originally a plantation owned by George Washington Parke Custis. This is the location of Robert E. Lee, 16,000 Civil War soldiers, William Howard Taft, John, Jackie, Robert, and Edward Kennedy. The tomb of the unknown soldier is also located here it was dedicated on November 11, 1921. It contains the remains of those soldiers unknown from WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

Dutch: variant, archaic or Americanized, of Wijnkoop, a nickname from wijnkoop ‘drinking-bout after a sale, paid for by the buyer’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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