Brief Life History of Adam
When Adam Polingo was born in 1852, in Atlantic Ocean, his father, Ignatiaus Polinger, was 35 and his mother, Sophia Herncha Kowol, was 35. He lived in Woodland Township, Wright, Minnesota, United States for about 30 years. He died on 17 June 1918, in Wright, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Delano, Wright, Minnesota, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (8)
- Adam Polingo in household of Ign Polingo, "Minnesota State Census, 1885"
- Adam Polings, „Minnesota Deaths, 1887-2001“
- Adam Polingo in household of Nicholes Polingo, "United States Census, 1900"
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World Events (8)
1858
Historical Boundaries 1858: Wright, Minnesota, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
Probably from German habitational name from Polling (Bavaria, Austria).
English (Sussex and Hampshire) and Irish: variant of either Poland or Powling, either a habitational name from Poling in Sussex, or a nickname from an unrecorded Middle English polling, a derivative of Middle English polle ‘head, hair of the head’ or pollen ‘to cut (hair), shave (someone's head)’ + the noun-forming suffix -ing. It may have been given to someone with a distinctive head of hair or who had a shaven head.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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