When Elihu Alvord Tryon was born on 19 June 1856, in Morrison, Whiteside, Illinois, United States, his father, Andrew Sylvanus Tryon, was 47 and his mother, Alice Morley Townsend Alvord, was 36. He married Sarah Elizabeth Auten on 27 December 1881, in Kellogg, Jasper, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. He lived in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States in 1910 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1920. He died on 4 March 1933, in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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The Fort Tejon earthquake, on January 9, 1857, registered at 7.9, making it one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in the United States. Only two people were killed, largely due to the sparse population in the area where the earthquake occurred. As a result of the large scale shaking, the Kern River was turned upstream and fish were stranded miles from Tulare Lake as the waters were rocked so far from its banks.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
English (Lincolnshire, Rutland and Northamptonshire): altered form of Dutch Trion, itself a shortened variant of Tirion, a cognate of Walloon and French Thiry .
History: A Northamptonshire family of this name trace their descent from Peter Trieon (died 1611), who went to England from the Netherlands c. 1562. His son, Moses Tryon, was high sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1624. William Tryon (born 1729 in Surrey, England) was the last provincial governor of NY; he gave his name to Tryon County, the district which took in the Mohawk Valley; after the American Revolution this huge area was split into Montgomery, Fulton, and other counties.
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