Brief Life History of James Donald
When James Donald Anderson was born on 6 December 1859, in Gananoque, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, his father, James Donald Anderson, was 24 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Froats, was 18. He married Maria Elizabeth Merkley on 9 November 1881, in Mariatown, Williamsburgh, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He died on 21 October 1944, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Fairview United Church Cemetery, Mariatown, Williamsburgh, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada.
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- James B Anderson, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Legacy NFS Source: James Donald Anderson - Government record: Marriage record or certificate: birth: 1859; Gananoque, Leeds, Ontario, Canada
- James Donald Anderson, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1868 · The Railroad Refrigerator Car
During the mid-19th century, attempts were made to ship perishable products by rail. The Western Railroad of Massachusetts was the first to experiment with the concept, but it was only functional in cold weather. In 1868, William Davis, of Detroit, patented a refrigerator car that used a frozen mixture of ice and salt to keep everything cold for shipment. It could be used in all weather and in all seasons. He sold the design to George H. Hammond, a Detroit meat packer, who built a set of cars to transport his products to Boston using ice from the Great Lakes for cooling.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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