Brief Life History of Mary Alfretta
When Mary Alfretta Wheeler was born on 3 March 1862, in Malta, DeKalb, Illinois, United States, her father, Samuel Joseph Wheeler, was 31 and her mother, Millicent Boyce Coster, was 28. She married George Clarence Carman on 14 February 1883, in DeKalb, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Oregon, Ogle, Illinois, United States in 1910 and Aurora, Kane, Illinois, United States for about 20 years. She died on 3 July 1954, at the age of 92, and was buried in Aurora, Kane, Illinois, United States.
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- Mary Wheeler in household of Samuel Wheeler, "United States Census, 1880"
- Mary Alfredette Wheeler Carman, "Find A Grave Index"
- Mary Alfretta Wheeler in entry for Roscoe Boyce Carman, "Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939"
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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.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a wheelwright, a maker of wheels (primarily for carts and other vehicles, but also other kinds of wheels, for use in spinning or other manufacturing processes), from Middle English wheler, whegheler, a derivative of Old English hweogol, hweowol, hwēol ‘wheel’.
History: A founder of Salisbury, NH, in 1634 was John Wheeler.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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