Brief Life History of Peter
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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- Peter Wilds, "United States Census, 1900"
- Peter Wild, "Find A Grave Index"
- Peter Wild in entry for Catherine Fahnlander Wild, "North Dakota, Cemetery Records, 1877-1999"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · Ontario Founded
On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.
1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
Name Meaning
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.
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From "A Family Called Wild", privately published in 1989
Peter 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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