William A Secor

Brief Life History of William A

When William A Secor was born about 1859, in Canada, his father, Peter Clark Secor, was 34 and his mother, Elizabeth Swallow, was 30. He lived in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1870 and San Francisco, California, United States in 1880. He died on 13 November 1898, in Placer, California, United States, at the age of 40.

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Family Time Line

Peter Clark Secor
1826–1912
Elizabeth Swallow
1831–after 1890
Mary Elizabeth Secor
1854–
William A Secor
1859–1898
Mary C Secor
Luther Alonzo Secor
1856–1933
Eva M. Secor
1861–1861
Herbert Frank Secor
1864–1936

Sources (2)

  • William S Secor in household of Peter C Secor, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Legacy NFS Source: William A. Secor - Published information: male

World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1867 · The Chicago Water Tower

The Chicago water tower was built out of Lemont limestone by William W. Boyington and was used for firefighting and also drawing clean water from Lake Michigan. The tower gained prominence after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Some believe that the tower was the only building to survive the Great Chicago Fire, but a few other buildings survived alongside the tower. The tower has become a symbol of old Chicago and how the city recovered from the fire. The tower has undergone only two renovations since 1913. 

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

Altered form of French Sicard , reflecting the characteristic Canadian and American French rounding of the -ard ending. Compare Secord , Secore , and Secoy .

Variant of Secora , a surname of Polish, Jewish (from Poland), Czech, Slovak, and Rusyn (from Slovakia) origin, meaning ‘tit(mouse)’ or ‘coalmouse’. Compare Secore .

History: The majority of the Secors are descendants of Ambroise Sicard, a Huguenot refugee from France (see Sicard ).

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

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