Orin Chittenden Crabtree

Brief Life History of Orin Chittenden

When Orin Chittenden Crabtree was born on 21 February 1862, in Contra Costa, California, United States, his father, John Fletcher Crabtree, was 37 and his mother, Elizabeth Davis, was 33. He married Mary Elizabeth Cyrus on 25 January 1888. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Judicial Township 3, Lake, California, United States in 1920 and Lake, California, United States in 1920. He died in 1931, in Upper Lake, Lake, California, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Hartley Cemetery, Lakeport, Lake, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Orin Chittenden Crabtree
1862–1931
Mary Elizabeth Cyrus
1868–1958
Marriage: 25 January 1888
Theodore Clarence Crabtree
1890–1972
Irvin Crabtree
1892–1970
Grace J Crabtree
1892–
Anna Leta Crabtree
1895–1976
Grace Izora Crabtree
1897–1988
Lottie May Crabtree
1901–1974
Henry Cyrus Crabtree
1902–1984
Mary Olive Crabtree
1906–1988
Ethel Hazel Crabtree
1908–2009

Sources (27)

  • Orrin Crabtree in household of J Crabtree, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Orrin C. Crabtree, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
  • Orin Crabtree, "California Death Index, 1905-1939"

World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1869 · Transcontinental Railroad Reaches San Francisco

The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.

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.

Name Meaning

English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from a lost place in Sowerbyshire, Yorkshire named Crabtree, named from Middle English crabbetre ‘crab-apple tree’. In some instances possibly a topographic name for someone who lived by a crab-apple tree.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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