Brief Life History of Mary Ann
When Mary Ann Kyle was born on 16 November 1858, in Hutchesontown, Lanarkshire, Scotland, her father, Andrew Kyle, was 21 and her mother, Sarah Laird, was 18. She married Thomas Brown Barker on 30 November 1880, in Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Tradeston, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom for about 10 years and Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1900. She died on 18 November 1916, in Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Stickney, Cook, Illinois, United States.
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- Mary Ann Kyle in household of Andrew Kyle, "Scotland Census, 1861"
- Mary Ann Kyle, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Mary A. Barker, "Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · The Chicago Water Tower
The Chicago water tower was built out of Lemont limestone by William W. Boyington and was used for firefighting and also drawing clean water from Lake Michigan. The tower gained prominence after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Some believe that the tower was the only building to survive the Great Chicago Fire, but a few other buildings survived alongside the tower. The tower has become a symbol of old Chicago and how the city recovered from the fire. The tower has undergone only two renovations since 1913.
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
Scottish:
habitational name from a district in Ayrshire called Kyle, named for the British chieftains who ruled it in the 5th century, the Coel Hen.
habitational name from any of several places in Scotland called Kyle, named with Gaelic caol ‘narrow’ or caolas ‘narrows, strait’. Compare Kyles .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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