Brief Life History of Nina Adele
When Nina Adele Ward was born in November 1860, in Michigan, United States, her father, John Wallace Ward, was 27 and her mother, Octavia Lavenia Barber, was 17. She married Alson Lynn Calkins about 1881. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States in 1880 and Representative District 5, Kent, Delaware, United States in 1940. She died on 19 September 1941, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Fairplains Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States.
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- Maria Ward in household of John Ward, "United States Census, 1870"
- Nina A Calkins, "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Births, 1860-1906"
- Nina Adele Calkins, "Michigan Death Certificates, 1921-1952"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1868 · The Railroad Refrigerator Car
During the mid-19th century, attempts were made to ship perishable products by rail. The Western Railroad of Massachusetts was the first to experiment with the concept, but it was only functional in cold weather. In 1868, William Davis, of Detroit, patented a refrigerator car that used a frozen mixture of ice and salt to keep everything cold for shipment. It could be used in all weather and in all seasons. He sold the design to George H. Hammond, a Detroit meat packer, who built a set of cars to transport his products to Boston using ice from the Great Lakes for cooling.
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: occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Middle English ward ‘watchman, guard’ (Old English weard, used as both an agent noun and an abstract noun).
English: occupational name from Middle English warde ‘armed guard’ (Old English weard ‘watching, guarding’), with the same meaning as 1 above.
Irish: shortened form of McWard, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Bhaird ‘son of the poet’. The surname occurs throughout Ireland, where three different branches of the family are known as professional poets.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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