Brief Life History of Hartley Oliver
When Hartley Oliver Simpson was born on 27 April 1876, in Belleville, Hastings, Ontario, Canada, his father, William John Simpson, was 26 and his mother, Martha E Fleming, was 20. He married Rose A Rumbelow on 30 May 1903, in Cobourg, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Tyendinaga, Hastings, Ontario, Canada in 1881 and Clinton, Clinton Township, Lenawee, Michigan, United States for about 30 years. He died on 4 May 1964, in Michigan, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Clinton, Clinton Township, Lenawee, Michigan, United States.
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- Hartley Simpson in household of William Simpson, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Legacy NFS Source: Hartley O Simpson - Government record: Marriage record or certificate: birth-name: Hartley Oliver Simpson
- Hartley Simpson, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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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.
1883 · Mining Boom
In 1883, there was a mining boom in Northern Ontario when mineral deposits were found near Sudbury. Thomas Flanagan was the blacksmith for the Canadian Pacific Railway that noticed the deposits in the river.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: patronymic from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Sim(m), Sime (see Sim ) + -son.
English: occasionally a variant of Sumsion with unrounding of the vowel before the nasal consonant, a dialect feature of southwestern England.
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Simpson or one called Zemson, all in Devon. The one in Holsworthy parish derives from an uncertain first element + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, while the one in Diptford comes from the Old English personal name Sigewine (genitive Sigewines) + Old English tūn. Both the one in Torbryan and Zempson in Dean Prior probably also have the same origin as the Diptford placename.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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