Brief Life History of Orson L
When Orson L King was born on 19 December 1844, in Mantua, Portage, Ohio, United States, his father, John Russell King, was 34 and his mother, Hannah Amelia Montgomery, was 31. He died on 20 July 1853, in Mantua Township, Portage, Ohio, United States, at the age of 8, and was buried in Eastlawn Cemetery, Mantua Township, Portage, Ohio, United States.
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- Orson King in household of John King, "United States Census, 1850"
- Orson King, "Find A Grave Index"
- Legacy NFS Source: Orson L King - Cemetery record or headstone: death: 20 July 1853; Mantua Township, Portage, Ohio, United States
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World Events (1)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English king ‘king’ (Old English cyning, cyng), perhaps acquired by someone with kingly qualities or as a pageant name by someone who had acted the part of a king or had been chosen as the master of ceremonies or ‘king’ of an event such as a tournament, festival or folk ritual. In North America, the surname King has absorbed several European cognates and equivalents with the same meaning, for example German König (see Koenig ) and Küng, French Roy , Slovenian, Croatian, or Serbian Kralj , Polish Krol . It is also very common among African Americans. It is also found as an artificial Jewish surname.
English: occasionally from the Middle English personal name King, originally an Old English nickname from the vocabulary word cyning, cyng ‘king’.
Irish: adopted for a variety of names containing the syllable rí (which means ‘king’ in Irish).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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