James Quackenbush was born in 1840, in Ontario, Canada. He married Mary Matilda Hawkins on 6 October 1866, in Rochester, Monroe, New York, United States. He died on 8 November 1886, in Monroe, New York, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Fairfield Cemetery, Spencerport, Monroe, New York, United States.
Americanized form of Dutch Quackenbosch: topographic name from Dutch kwak ‘night heron’ + bosch ‘woodland, wilderness’. The surname Quackenbosch is no longer found in the Netherlands. Compare Quakenbush .
History: Quackenbosch was the name of a prominent Dutch family in Beverwyck in New Netherland (now Albany, NY) in the 17th century. The family was associated with the early brick-making industry in Fort Orange-Beverwyck. A house built by them in the early 1700s still stands; it is the oldest surviving house in Albany.
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