When James Edward Denny was born on 1 June 1835, in Bond, Illinois, United States, his father, James Denny, was 38 and his mother, Mary Polly White, was 26. He married Jennie B. Drouillard on 24 June 1866, in Tulare, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 18 November 1907, in Visalia, Tulare, California, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Visalia Public Cemetery, Visalia, Tulare, California, United States.
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Visalia Public Cemetery LOCATION 1300 W Goshen Ave Visalia, Tulare County, California, 93277 USA MEMORIALS 26,991 added (83% photographed)
On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars.
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.
English and Scottish: from Middle English Den(n)y, a pet form of the personal name Denis (see Dennis ). Compare Tenney .
English: habitational name from Danny in Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, recorded as Danye in 1343. Alternatively, the name may arise from Denny in Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, but no medieval evidence with a habitative preposition has been found in the case of the latter.
Scottish: habitational name from Denny in Stirlingshire.
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