Brief Life History of Oliver Perry
When Oliver Perry Kenyon Sr was born on 18 September 1808, in Easton, Washington, New York, United States, his father, Reynolds Kinyon, was 45 and his mother, Rachael Thurston, was 36. He married Mary Jane Hardenbergh on 31 October 1831, in Downers Grove, DuPage, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in York Township, DuPage, Illinois, United States for about 10 years and Downers Grove, DuPage, Illinois, United States in 1880. He died on 3 January 1888, in Illinois, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Downers Grove, DuPage, Illinois, United States.
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- Oliver Kenyon, "United States Census, 1850"
- Oliver Kenyon, "BillionGraves Index"
- Oliver Kenyon in entry for Nicklos Runnels Kenyon, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1818
Illinois is the 21st state.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): habitational name from a place near Warrington, which is of uncertain etymology. There was formerly an ancient burial mound there and Ekwall has speculated that the name is a shortened form of a British name composed of the elements crūc ‘mound’ + a personal name cognate with Welsh Einion (see Eynon ).
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Coinín ‘son of Coinín’, a byname based on a diminutive of cano ‘wolf’, also Anglicized as Canning and Cunneen . The similarity to the borrowed word coinín ‘coney, rabbit’ has sometimes caused this name to be Anglicized as Rabbitt .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhinghin, ‘son of Finghen’, a personal name meaning ‘fair-born’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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