When Madison J Colby was born on 6 December 1862, in Ohio, United States, his father, Joseph J Colby, was 31 and his mother, Sarah Jane Whiton, was 22. He married Katherine Meisinger on 3 February 1889, in McPherson, Kansas, United States. He lived in Empire Township, McPherson, Kansas, United States in 1910 and Galva, McPherson, Kansas, United States for about 15 years. He died on 29 January 1933, at the age of 70, and was buried in Galva, McPherson, Kansas, United States.
English (eastern): habitational name from Colby in Norfolk and Westmorland, Coleby in Lincolnshire, or Coulby Newham in the North Yorkshire. The Colby placename derives from the Old Norse personal name Koli (a byname for a swarthy person, from kol ‘(char)coal’) + Old Norse býr ‘settlement’.
Americanized form of Norwegian Kolby .
Americanized form of German Kolbe . Compare Kolby .
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