Brief Life History of Raymond Arthur
When Raymond Arthur Wick was born on 2 March 1887, in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States, his father, John Kranier Wick, was 43 and his mother, Martha B. Goerke, was 26. He died on 22 November 1910, in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States, at the age of 23, and was buried in New York City, New York, United States.
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- Raymond G Wick in household of John K Wick, "United States Census, 1910"
- Raymond Arthur Wick, "New York, New York City Births, 1846-1909"
- Raymond G. Wick, "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949"
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1890 · Woman's Suffrage
An organization formed in favor of women's suffrages. By combining the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, the NAWSA eventually increased in membership up to two million people. It is still one of the largest voluntary organizations in the nation today and held a major role in passing the Nineteenth Amendment.
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: from Middle English wik(e) (Old English wīc) ‘building; enclosed piece of land; dependent farm where a certain kind of work is done’. In placenames the term is frequently combined with words associated with food production, as in Butterwick ‘butter wick’, Chiswick ‘cheese wick’, Cowick ‘cow wick’, Hardwick ‘herd wick’, Gatwick ‘goat wick’, Shapwick ‘sheep wick’, Goswick ‘goose wick’, Berwick ‘barley wick’, Fishwick ‘fish wick’. The most common sense is ‘dairy farm’. The surname may be topographic or occupational, denoting someone who lived or worked at a wick (compare Wicker ), or habitational, denoting someone who lived at or came from a place called Wick (of which there are examples in Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire, and Worcestershire), Wyke (Devon, Dorset, Surrey, Yorkshire), or Week (Cornwall, Devon, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Somerset).
German: from a medieval personal name Wicko, a short form of any of various ancient Germanic personal names formed with the element wīg ‘battle, war’.
German: habitational name from Wick (Westphalia) or any of the places called Wieck or Wiek.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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