Brief Life History of George Bateman
When George Bateman Wakefield was born on 29 March 1863, in New Brighton, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, David Cooper Wakefield, was 48 and his mother, Eleanor H Anawalt, was 34. He married Ida G Mincke on 27 March 1889, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Foster Township, Marion, Illinois, United States in 1910 and Newark, Licking, Ohio, United States in 1920. He died on 17 September 1932, in Salem, Marion, Illinois, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in East Lawn Cemetery, Salem, Marion, Illinois, United States.
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- George B Wakefield, "United States Census, 1930"
- George Bateman Wakefield, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- George B Wakefield, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1871
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the city of Wakefield in Yorkshire and from Wakefield Lawn in Potterspury (Northamptonshire). Both are named from the Old English personal name Waca or Old English wacu ‘wake, festival’ + feld ‘open country’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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