Brief Life History of Joseph Alexander
When Joseph Alexander Herring was born in 1865, in Caledonia, Houston, Minnesota, United States, his father, Joseph A Herring, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth McNaughton, was 34. He married Effie Cook on 14 January 1890, in Chase, Kansas, United States. He lived in Berks, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900 and Matfield Township, Chase, Kansas, United States for about 10 years.
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- Alex Herring in household of J H Huffman, "Kansas State Census, 1895"
- Alexander J Hering, "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911"
- Aleck Herring in household of Edward Crocker, "United States Census, 1900"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1880
Historical Boundaries: 1880: Rice, Kansas, United States
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
English (London), Dutch, and German: metonymic occupational name for a herring fisher or for a seller of the fish, or perhaps for someone who habitually ate herring, from Middle English hering (Old English hǣring, hēring), Dutch haring, Middle High German hærinc. In some cases it may have been a nickname in the sense of a trifle, something of little value, a meaning which is found in medieval phrases and proverbial expressions such as ‘to like neither herring nor barrel’, i.e. not to like something at all.
German: habitational name from Herringen in Westphalia.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Hering .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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