When Peter Wild was born on 28 February 1857, in Bayfield River, Huron, Ontario, Canada, his father, Casimir Sebastian Wild, was 30 and his mother, Catherine Vogt, was 29. He had at least 9 sons and 3 daughters with Catherine Fahnlander. He lived in Billings Township, Cavalier, North Dakota, United States in 1900. He died on 17 August 1906, in Langdon, Cavalier, North Dakota, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Calvary Cemetery, Cavalier, North Dakota, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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English: from Middle English wilde ‘wild, violent’ (Old English wilde), hence a nickname for a man of violent and undisciplined character, or a topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of overgrown uncultivated land (from Middle English wilde (noun) ‘wild place, wasteland’).
English: variant of Wile , with excrescent -d.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): cognate of 1 above, from Middle High German wilde, wilt, German wild ‘wild’, also used in the sense ‘strange, foreign’, and therefore in some cases a nickname for an incomer.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesPeter Wild was a pioneer farmer of Cavalier County, who was born in Ontario of German parents. He moved to Cavalier County with his older brother John in 1882, before the county was organized or surve …
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