Brief Life History of Robert Hiram
When Robert Hiram Barker was born on 5 April 1871, in Fabius Township, Schuyler, Missouri, United States, his father, John Robert Barker, was 25 and his mother, Rebecca Shaw, was 20. He married Queen Victoria Wineinger on 19 October 1892, in Scotland, Jasper, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. He lived in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1930 and Vest Township, Scotland, Missouri, United States for about 5 years. He died on 31 March 1963, in Fabius Township, Schuyler, Missouri, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Cone Cemetery, Fabius Township, Schuyler, Missouri, United States.
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- Robert Barker, "United States Census, 1910"
- Robert H Barker, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Robert Barker, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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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 · Montgomery Ward Inc.
Montgomery Ward was founded by Aaron Montgomery Ward after he observed that rural customers often wanted goods from the city but couldn’t get them because of distance and cost. Ward believed that he could cut costs and make a wide variety of goods available to rural customers. Ward and two partners used $1,600 to issue the first catalog in August 1872 and with its publication, rural retailers considered Ward a threat and publicly burned his catalog. Despite the opposition, however, the business grew at a fast pace over the next several decades and was almost as successful as Sears. In April 1944, U.S. Army troops seized the Chicago offices of Montgomery Ward & Company after President Roosevelt ordered it because of an unsettled strike request made by the workers. Eight months later, with Montgomery Ward continuing to refuse to recognize the unions, President Roosevelt issued an executive order seizing all of Montgomery Ward's property nationwide.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a tanner of leather, from Middle English barkere ‘tanner’, tree bark having been used as the tanning agent.
English: occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle English berker, bercher (Old French berchier, bercher, berkier, berker, Late Latin berbicarius, from berbex ‘ram’, genitive berbicis). With the change of -ar- to -er- in Middle English, this became indistinguishable from the preceding name (see 1 above).
Americanized form of German Berger or Barger .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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