When Lydia R. Dorothy Reynolds was born in April 1855, in Ohio, United States, her father, William Burt Rannells, was 65 and her mother, Phoebe Bay, was 38. She married William Emery Sidwell on 13 November 1875, in Brown, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. She lived in Lewis Township, Brown, Ohio, United States in 1900 and Tate Township, Clermont, Ohio, United States for about 10 years.
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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.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English: variant of Reynold , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish (Leitrim): in Ulster the English name in 1 above was substituted for Mac Raghnaill; see McReynolds .
History: Christopher Reynolds of Gravesend, Kent, England, arrived in America sometime before his marriage in 1644 in Isle of Wight County, VA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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