When Mary Elizabeth Musson was born on 5 August 1851, in Zanesville, Muskingum, Ohio, United States, her father, Daniel W Musson I, was 23 and her mother, Ann Shelbourne, was 23. She married Andrew Jackson Stirrat on 19 February 1874, in Effingham, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Illinois, United States in 1870 and Summit Township, Effingham, Illinois, United States for about 20 years. She died on 14 April 1902, in Effingham, Illinois, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Blue Point Baptist Cemetery, Shumway, Effingham, Illinois, United States.
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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.
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English (East Midlands): nickname from Anglo-Norman French mussun, muisson ‘sparrow’.
English: variant of Muston with loss of -t-. The placename Muston (Leicestershire) is recorded as Musson several times in the 17th century.
French: habitational name from (Le) Musson, the name of a few places in various parts of France, e.g. in Meuse-et-Moselle, named with the Latin personal name Montius + the suffix -onem, or, alternatively, with Latin mons ‘mountain’ + the suffix -ionem.
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