Peter Wild

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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Family Time Line

Peter Wild
1857–1906
Catherine Fahnlander
1860–1940
John Joseph Wild
1881–1902
Frank Wild
1883–1944
William Phillip Wild
1885–1977
Peter Leonard Wild
1888–1960
Katherine Augusta Wild
1890–1981
Joseph Thomas Wild
1890–1972
Edward George Wild
1892–1980
Olivia Mary Wild
1894–1923
Dr Raymond Eugene Wild
1896–1952
Verna Louise Wild
1898–1987
John Clarence Wild
1902–1988
Walter James Wild
1904–1922

Sources (12)

  • 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"

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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Story Highlight

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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