When William Evans Gordon was born in December 1853, in Parke, Indiana, United States, his father, Andrew Jackson Gordon, was 39 and his mother, Eliza Jane Stokes, was 24. He married Marian Ann Livingston on 6 March 1875, in Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Platte Township, Taylor, Iowa, United States for about 10 years and Grant Township, Taylor, Iowa, United States in 1925. He died on 24 October 1930, in Lenox, Taylor, Iowa, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Bedford, Taylor, Iowa, United States.
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The oldest burial in Fairview Cemetery as per Find a Grave is John Springsteel BIRTH 1850 DEATH 18 Oct 1855 (aged 4–5) BURIAL Fairview Cemetery Bedford, Taylor County, Iowa, USA MEMORIAL ID 29640089
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.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Scottish: habitational name from Gordon in Berwickshire, named with Welsh gor ‘spacious’ + din ‘fort’.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Gourdon in Saône-et-Loire, so called from the Gallo-Roman personal name Gordus + the locative suffix -o, -ōnis.
English (of Norman origin): alternatively, said to be a nickname from a diminutive of Old French gourd ‘heavy, dull, sluggish’ (compare 8 below).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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