When Martha Keyes was born on 16 January 1845, in Henderson, Illinois, United States, her father, Elisha Barrus Keyes, was 38 and her mother, Joanna Case Worden, was 22. She married Alma K. Taylor on 27 February 1860. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died on 21 February 1875, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 30, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
William Rand opened a small printing shop in Chicago. Doing most of the work himself for the first two years he decided to hire some help. Rand Hired Andrew McNally, an Irish Immigrant, to work in his shop. After doing business with the Chicago Tribune, Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. Years later, Rand and McNally established Rand McNally & Co after purchasing the Tribune's printing business. They focused mainly on printing tickets, complete railroad guides and timetables for the booming railroad industry around the city. What made the company successful was the detailed maps of roadways, along with directions to certain places. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways and erected many of the roadside highway signs that have been adopted by state and federal highway authorities. The company is still making and updating the world maps that are looked at every day.
English, Irish and Scottish: variant of Kay , of various origins, mostly, with excrescent -s.
English (of Norman origin): in some cases, possibly a variant of Guise, a habitational name from Guise in Aisne, Picardy.
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