Brief Life History of Laura Elizabeth
When Laura Elizabeth Nicol was born on 20 August 1853, in Niles, Berrien, Michigan, United States, her father, William Nichols, was 33 and her mother, Harriet Cady, was 36. She married Peter Anderson on 14 December 1882, in Quealy, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Benton Township, Butler, Kansas, United States in 1880 and Dallas, Fremont, Wyoming, United States for about 10 years. She died on 7 November 1933, in Lander, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Lander, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States.
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- Laura E. Nicol in household of Hariatte C. Parker, "United States Census, 1880"
- Laura E. Nicol, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
- Laura Elizabeth Nicol Anderson, "Find A Grave Index"
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1855
Historical Boundaries: 1855: Butler, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Butler, 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
Scottish: variant of Nichol .
Breton (rarely Le Nicol), French, and German: from a shortened form of a personal name, Breton and French Nicolas , German Nikolaus (see Nicholas ).
In some cases also an American shortened (and altered) form of Greek Nikolas , its variant Nicolas , or of any of various derivatives of the personal name Nikola(o)s ‘Nicholas’, including Nikolis (see Nicoli ). Compare Nichol and Nicola .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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