Brief Life History of Orville Daniel
When Orville Daniel Olmsted was born on 22 April 1837, in Ashtabula, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States, his father, Walter Daniel Olmsted, was 24 and his mother, Hannah Webster, was 23. He married Helen A. Olmstead on 25 December 1870, in Jackson, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Moscow Township, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States in 1900 and Blue Island, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1910. He died on 30 December 1917, in Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Orville Olmstead in household of Harvey Newell, "United States Census, 1850"
- Orville D Olmstead, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
- Orville D. Olmstead, "Find A Grave Index"
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1839 · From Swamp to Beautiful Place
By 1829 Venus, Illinois had grown sufficiently and in 1832 was one of the contenders for the new county seat. However, the honor was awarded to a nearby city, Carthage. In 1834 the name Venus was changed to Commerce because the settlers felt that the new name better suited their plans. But during late 1839, arriving members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought the small town of Commerce and in April 1840 it was renamed Nauvoo by Joseph Smith Jr., who led the Latter-Day Saints to Nauvoo to escape persecution in Missouri. The name Nauvoo is derived from the traditional Hebrew language. It is notable that by 1844 Nauvoo's population had swollen to around 12,000 residents, rivaling the size of Chicago at the time. After the Latter-Day Saints left the population settled down toward 2,000 people.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1858 · A House Divided
Abraham Lincoln's goal was to be different than the previous Senators of Illinois and voice his opinion in how he saw the State and the United States start to drift apart in the different ideology on what was right and what was wrong. Even though it would become an unsuccessful campaign strategy to win the senate seat, to this day it is one of the most famous speeches of US politics.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Olmstead .
History: James Olmsted was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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