Brief Life History of Norris Matthew
When Norris Matthew Compton was born on 26 April 1836, in Sullivanville, Veteran, Chemung, New York, United States, his father, Rev. Peter Compton, was 22 and his mother, Amy Coleman Norris, was 16. He married Mary Louise Brigham on 6 March 1856, in Elmira, Chemung, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Meadville, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880 and Horseheads, Horseheads, Chemung, New York, United States for about 5 years. He died on 22 November 1919, in Naperville, DuPage, Illinois, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Van Duzer Cemetery, Veteran, Chemung, New York, United States.
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- Morris Compton in household of Peter Compton, "United States Census, 1850"
- Norris M. Compton, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Norris M Compton, "Find A Grave Index"
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1839
Incorporated in 1839
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1858 · A House Divided
Abraham Lincoln's goal was to be different than the previous Senators of Illinois and voice his opinion in how he saw the State and the United States start to drift apart in the different ideology on what was right and what was wrong. Even though it would become an unsuccessful campaign strategy to win the senate seat, to this day it is one of the most famous speeches of US politics.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places throughout England (but especially in the southwest) named Compton, from Old English cumb ‘short, straight valley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Recollections from grandson John Compton Leffler (son of Lena Compton who was Norris’s daughter and sister to William R. Compton, Sr.) written in March 1973
“Norris M. Compton was the only child of Peter Compton and Amy Norris Compton, who survived infancy. He was dapper in dress, had a fine handlebar mustache, loved fine horses, good cigars, and, I suspe …
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