When Orrin W. Remington was born on 28 November 1858, in Lakeville, Livonia, Livingston, New York, United States, his father, William Remington, was 25 and his mother, Lydia Ann Harding, was 25. He married Mary Medora Frances Milliman on 27 November 1879. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Buchanan, Berrien, Michigan, United States for about 10 years and Marcellus, Marcellus Township, Cass, Michigan, United States for about 30 years. He died on 22 June 1936, in Marcellus Township, Cass, Michigan, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Bly Cemetery, Marcellus, Marcellus Township, Cass, Michigan, United States.
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English: habitational name from Rimington (Yorkshire), from Old English rima ‘rim, edge, boundary’ + the place- and river name forming suffix -ing (together meaning ‘boundary stream’, referring to Ings Brook) + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. Rimington is on the Lancashire border.
History: The American painter Frederic Remington (1861–1909) was descended from John Remington, living in MA in 1639; his father, Eliphalet Remington, was born in Suffield, CT, in 1793, and was a noted firearms manufacturer.
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