Brief Life History of Henry Beason
When Henry Beason Taylor Jr. was born on 17 August 1852, in Lynchburg Township, Mason, Illinois, United States, his father, Henry Beason Taylor, was 38 and his mother, Mary Patterson Hawthorne, was 41. He married Matilda J. Linn on 27 December 1870, in Mason, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Richmond, Tazewell, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Cass, Illinois, United States in 1880.
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- Henry Taylor, "United States Census, 1860"
- Henry H Taylor, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Harry Taylor in entry for Harriet Hattie McDonald, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
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1856 · The Largest Map Company in the World
William Rand opened a small printing shop in Chicago. Doing most of the work himself for the first two years he decided to hire some help. Rand Hired Andrew McNally, an Irish Immigrant, to work in his shop. After doing business with the Chicago Tribune, Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. Years later, Rand and McNally established Rand McNally & Co after purchasing the Tribune's printing business. They focused mainly on printing tickets, complete railroad guides and timetables for the booming railroad industry around the city. What made the company successful was the detailed maps of roadways, along with directions to certain places. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways and erected many of the roadside highway signs that have been adopted by state and federal highway authorities. The company is still making and updating the world maps that are looked at every day.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.
In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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