Hiram Sylvester Dunning

Brief Life History of Hiram Sylvester

When Hiram Sylvester Dunning was born in 1851, in Quebec, Quebec, Canada, his father, Hiram W. Dunning, was 39 and his mother, Joanna Cameron, was 35. He married Catharine Elisabeth Dings about 1875, in Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Communauté-Urbaine-de-l'Outaouais, Quebec, Canada in 1871 and Quebec, Canada in 1878. He died in 1901, at the age of 50.

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Family Time Line

Hiram Sylvester Dunning
1851–1901
Catharine Elisabeth Dings
1854–1924
Marriage: about 1875
Robert Atcheson Dunning
1885–1949
Dorothy Grace Dunning
1890–1933

Sources (5)

  • Hiram Dunning in household of Mary Dunning, "Canada Census, 1871"
  • Hiram Dunning, "United States City and Business Directories, ca. 1749 - ca. 1990"
  • Hiram Dunning in entry for Grace Dorothy Dunning, "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"

World Events (4)

1867 · Ontario Founded

On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.

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1883 · Mining Boom

In 1883, there was a mining boom in Northern Ontario when mineral deposits were found near Sudbury. Thomas Flanagan was the blacksmith for the Canadian Pacific Railway that noticed the deposits in the river.

Name Meaning

Scottish: habitational name from a place called Dunning in Lower Strathearn (Perthshire), recorded in 1200 as Dunine and later as Dunyn, from Gaelic dùnan, a diminutive of dùn ‘fort’.

English: variant of Downing .

Irish: variant of Dineen .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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