When Gerald Roselle King was born on 7 June 1881, in Mills, Harrison Township, Potter, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Clinton Amos King, was 40 and his mother, Elsie Lucina Howe, was 35. He married Perny Lavina Henry on 17 March 1911, in Lewiston, Nez Perce, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Whitman, Washington, United States in 1920. He died on 7 June 1936, in Lewiston, Nez Perce, Idaho, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Normal Hill Cemetery, Lewiston, Nez Perce, Idaho, United States.
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On November 11, 1889, Washington Territory became Washington State the 42nd state to enter the Union. The state was named in honor of George Washington.
The Klondike gold rush started in 1896 in Canada, but by 1897 as miners started moving and following the gold it caused for Seattle to rapidly grow as more miners joined the search for gold.
English: nickname from Middle English king ‘king’ (Old English cyning, cyng), perhaps acquired by someone with kingly qualities or as a pageant name by someone who had acted the part of a king or had been chosen as the master of ceremonies or ‘king’ of an event such as a tournament, festival or folk ritual. In North America, the surname King has absorbed several European cognates and equivalents with the same meaning, for example German König (see Koenig ) and Küng, French Roy , Slovenian, Croatian, or Serbian Kralj , Polish Krol . It is also very common among African Americans. It is also found as an artificial Jewish surname.
English: occasionally from the Middle English personal name King, originally an Old English nickname from the vocabulary word cyning, cyng ‘king’.
Irish: adopted for a variety of names containing the syllable rí (which means ‘king’ in Irish).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesFound on paper in Grandma Kings box, her father Gerald, George & Rubin came west in 1903 Gerald Roselle was born June 7 1881, Potter Co. PA. He left there in about 1902 and went to Spokane Washington …
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