Brief Life History of William J
When William J Pike was born in 1872, in New York, United States, his father, Benjamin Leroy Pike, was 26 and his mother, Almeda Sornberger, was 25. He had at least 2 daughters with Ida Boppst. He lived in Lewiston, Niagara, New York, United States for about 40 years and Cambria, Niagara, New York, United States in 1950.
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- William J Pike, "United States Census, 1900"
- Wm J Pike in entry for Frederick W Seward and Mary E Pike, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- William J Pike, "United States Census, 1940"
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1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
1872 · The Amnesty Act
A federal law which reversed most of the penalties on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
English: nickname, perhaps for a fisherman whose physique resembled that of a pike. One Londoner so named in 1292 was a fishmonger.
English: metonymic occupational name for a user of a pointed tool, perhaps a laborer or military pikeman, from Middle English pike ‘pike, pickaxe, pitchfork’. Compare Pick .
English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Pic (Old English Pica, Old Norse Pík), of uncertain origin but perhaps from one of the words mentioned above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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