Brief Life History of Ellen
When Ellen Cross was born on 27 October 1852, in Brant Township, Bruce, Ontario, Canada, her father, Robert Cross, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Jane McCullough, was 27. She married Manuel "Manny" Edward "Emanuel" Jasper on 14 February 1873, in Hanover, Grey, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. She lived in Bruce, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Brockville, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada in 1911. She died on 13 October 1924, in Waukegan, Lake, Illinois, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Zion, Lake, Illinois, United States.
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- Ellen Cross in household of Robert Cross, "Canada Census, 1871"
- Ellen Jasper, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Ellen Cross, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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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.
1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a cross, such as one set up by the roadside or in a marketplace, from Middle English cros (Old English cros and Old Norse kross, ultimately from Latin crux, crucem). It is commonly Latinized in medieval records as ad crucem and de Cruce but examples of this can just as well belong to the synonymous but less common name Crouch . In a few cases the surname may have been given originally to someone who lived by a crossroads, but this sense of the word seems to have been a comparatively late development. In other cases, the surname (and its European cognates; see 3 below) may have denoted someone who carried the cross in processions of the Christian Church, but in English at least the usual word for this sense was Crozier .
Irish: shortened form of McCrossen .
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘cross’ or ‘the cross’, such as French Lacroix , German Kreutz , and Slovenian and Croatian Križ (see Kriz ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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