John Pack

Brief Life History of John

When John Pack was born on 20 May 1809, in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, George Pack, was 40 and his mother, Phylotte Greene, was 35. He married Julia Ives on 10 October 1832, in Watertown, Jefferson, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Peoa, Summit, Utah, United States in 1880 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1880. He died on 4 April 1885, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Pack
1809–1885
Mary Jane Walker
1835–1908
Marriage: 15 September 1852
Geneva Harriet Pack
1853–1921
Kamelia Luella Pack
1855–1936
Quince Rufus Pack
1857–1953
Walker Xenophon Pack
1860–1928
Annie Jane Pack
1862–1952
Edith Olive Pack
1865–1940
Flora Inez Pack
1867–1953
Phylotte Greene Pack
1869–1943
Hattie Pack
1872–1963
Frederick James Pack
1875–1938
Harold Rostler Pack
1882–1943

Sources (187)

  • John Peck, "United States Census, 1880"
  • John Pack, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages, 1980-2015"
  • John Pack on Harold R. Pack marriage record

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World Events (8)

1810 · Change of capital city

Zanesville becomes the new state capital.

1812

War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

Name Meaning

English (Kent and Devon): variant of Pask , derived from Middle English Pake ‘Easter, Passover’.

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a wholesale trader, from Middle Low German packe, German Pack ‘bundle, package’ (see Packer ). Compare Pak .

Dutch: variant, archaic or Americanized, of Pak , a cognate of 2 above.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Autobiography of Julia Ives Pack

Autobiography of Julia Ives Pack My father, Erastus Ives, was born at Farrington, Connecticut, November 2, 1780. He died at Watertown, New York, September 3, 1828. My mother, Lucy Paine, was born …

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