Brief Life History of Edward Augustus Decker
Edward Augustus Decker Christopher was born in April 1853, in Richmond, New York, United States as the son of Thomas Christopher and Anna Blake. He married Clara Viola Cary in 1878, in Lee, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Covina, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1920 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930. He died on 26 February 1936, in United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Edward Christopher in household of Thos Christopher, "United States Census, 1870"
- Edward Augustus D Christopher, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Edward A Christopher, "California Death Index, 1905-1939"
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1854
Historical Boundaries: 1854: Unorganized Federal Territory, United States 1854: Kansas Territory, United State 1855: Shawnee, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Shawnee, Kansas, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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
English, German, West Indian (mainly Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua and Barbuda, and British Virgin Islands), and African (mainly Nigeria and Tanzania): from the English and German personal name Christopher, from Greek Christophoros ‘Christ-bearing’ (see Christ 1). This was borne by a rather obscure 3rd-century Christian martyr. His name was relatively common among early Christians, who desired to bear Jesus Christ metaphorically with them in their daily lives. Subsequently, the name was explained by a folk etymology according to which the saint carried the infant Christ across a ford and so became the patron saint of travelers. Despite the widespread veneration and depiction of this saint, this was not a very common personal name in medieval England, and may in some instances have a habitational origin, for someone living for example in Saint Christopher parish (Saint Christopher le Stocks, London). In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed the German variant Christoffer and cognates from other languages, e.g. Hungarian Kristóf and Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian Krištof (see Kristof ). The usual German form of the name is Christoph .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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