Brief Life History of Hannah Ellen
When Hannah Ellen Bell was born on 28 December 1851, in Atterberry, Menard, Illinois, United States, her father, Agustin Stewart Bell, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Arnold, was 25. She married Cyrus Wright Atterberry on 6 February 1878, in Menard, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Petersburg, Menard, Illinois, United States for about 20 years. She died on 2 June 1893, in Menard, Illinois, United States, at the age of 41, and was buried in Atterberry, Menard, Illinois, United States.
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- Hannah E Bell in household of Augustus S Bell, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Hannah Ellen Bell - Church record: Cemetery record or headstone: birth: 28 December 1851; Atterberry, Menard, Illinois, United States
- Hannah Ellen Bell Atterberry, "Find A Grave Index"
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1856 · The Largest Map Company in the World
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.
1857
Historical Boundaries: 1857: Menard, Illinois, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English (northern) and Scottish (Lowlands): from the Middle English personal name Bell. As a man's name this is from Old French beu, bel ‘handsome’, which was also used as a nickname. As a female name it represents a short form of Isabel .
English (northern) and Scottish (Lowlands): from Middle English belle ‘bell’ (Old English belle), in various applications; most probably a metonymic occupational name for a bell ringer or bell maker, or a topographic name for someone living ‘at the bell’ (as attested by 14th-century forms such as John atte Belle). This indicates either residence by an actual bell (e.g. a town's bell in a bell tower, centrally placed to summon meetings, sound the alarm, etc.) or ‘at the sign of the bell’, i.e. a house or inn sign (although surnames derived from house and inn signs are rare in Scots and English).
English: from Middle English bel ‘fair, fine, good’ (Old French bel ‘beautiful, fair’). See also Beal 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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