When Nils Peter Falkman was born on 30 April 1863, in Hinneryd, Kronoberg, Sweden, his father, Johan Nilsson, was 43 and his mother, Karna Persdotter, was 41. He married Karin Norén on 25 May 1892, in DuBois, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Malmö, Malmöhus, Sweden in 1885 and Hudiksvall, Gävleborg, Sweden in 1900. He died on 24 November 1918, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Friedens Cemetery, Bensenville, DuPage, Illinois, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Some characteristic forenames: Dutch Cees, Gerrit, Willem.
Dutch: occupational name for a lime burner, literally ‘lime man’, a variant of Kalk formed with man ‘man’.
Americanized form of North German Kalkmann, a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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