When Simpson Canman was born on 20 September 1853, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, his father, Mark Canmann, was 26 and his mother, Eliza Wetzler, was 20. He lived in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States for about 20 years. He died on 22 March 1925, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 71.
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The Lager Beer Riot came at a time in Chicago's history where large waves of Irish and German immigrants moved to the city. The Riot was started because the Mayor of the city renewed enforcement of an old liquor ordinance mandating that taverns be closed on Sundays and to raise the cost of a license to sell liquor from $50 to $300 each year. This didn't sit well with the German immigrants because they felt like it was directed towards them and their heritage. There was only one death throughout the time of the riot, though protesters claimed that it was more.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Americanized form of German Banmann: probably a topographic name for someone living near a piece of land or forest legally excluded from public use, or an occupational name for a guard of such, from Middle High German ban ‘ban; law court, jurisdiction’ + man ‘man’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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