Brief Life History of Newton
When Newton Crandell was born on 12 July 1863, in Fort Erie, Bertie, Welland, Ontario, Canada, his father, William Richard Crandell, was 26 and his mother, Harriet Truax, was 22. He married Margaret Annetta Shellington on 9 October 1886, in Norwich, Oxford, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Brantford, Ontario, Canada in 1881 and Brant Township, Bruce, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He died on 12 December 1929, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Brantford, Ontario, Canada.
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- Newton Crandle in household of William Crandle, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Legacy NFS Source: Newton Crandell - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Newton Crandell
- Newton Crandall, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1868 · The Railroad Refrigerator Car
During the mid-19th century, attempts were made to ship perishable products by rail. The Western Railroad of Massachusetts was the first to experiment with the concept, but it was only functional in cold weather. In 1868, William Davis, of Detroit, patented a refrigerator car that used a frozen mixture of ice and salt to keep everything cold for shipment. It could be used in all weather and in all seasons. He sold the design to George H. Hammond, a Detroit meat packer, who built a set of cars to transport his products to Boston using ice from the Great Lakes for cooling.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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Irish: variant of Crandall , now found chiefly in Kent.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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