When Day Browning Orton was born on 27 September 1885, in Denver, Hancock, Illinois, United States, his father, Thomas Madison Orton, was 53 and his mother, Eleanor Vashti Browning, was 42. He married Grace E Love on 2 June 1911, in Hancock, Illinois, United States. He lived in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1920 and United States in 1949. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 19 January 1955, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, San Mateo, California, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Orton in Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, and Westmorland. All those in England share a second element from Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’, but the first element in each case is more difficult to determine. Examples in Cambridgeshire and Warwickshire are on the banks of rivers, so these are probably derived from Old English ōfer ‘riverbank’; in other cases it is impossible to distinguish between ofer ‘ridge’ and ufera ‘upper’. Orton in Westmorland is probably formed with the Old Norse byname Orri ‘black-cock’ (the male black grouse). Orton near Fochabers, Scotland, is of uncertain etymology.
Americanized form of Norwegian Årtun: habitational name from the farm name Årtun, found in six places, e.g. in the province of Rogaland, a compound of the genitive case singular of Old Norse á ‘small river’ and tún ‘farm yard (surrounded by buildings)’.
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