Brief Life History of John J.
When John J. Fenton was born on 27 June 1834, in Porter, Scioto, Ohio, United States, his father, Thaddeus Bennett Fenton, was 24 and his mother, Nancy Bennett, was 21. He married Emily Anna Orm on 11 December 1859, in Scioto, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Worland, Bates, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Omphghent Township, Madison, Illinois, United States in 1910. He died on 3 September 1918, in Madison, Illinois, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Worden Village Cemetery, Worden, Madison, Illinois, United States.
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- John J Newton, "United States Census, 1910"
- John J. Finton im Eintrag für Margaret N. Finton, „Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003“
- John J Finton, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1836 · Kirtland Temple Dedicated
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
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.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places, in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Staffordshire, and Nottinghamshire, so called from Old English fenn ‘marsh, fen’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Irish: English surname adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Fionnachta or Ó Fiachna ‘descendant of Fiachna’, an old personal name Anglicized as Feighney and sometimes mistranslated as Hunt (see Fee 1 and Finnerty ).
Scottish: habitational name from Fenton in East Lothian.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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