Brief Life History of Henrietta Griswold
When Henrietta Griswold Murray was born on 11 November 1848, in Scott, Illinois, United States, her father, Francis Gordon Murray, was 41 and her mother, Marian Wright, was 26. She married Townley Robey on 11 May 1869. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in District 4, Charles, Maryland, United States in 1870 and Bryantown, Charles, Maryland, United States in 1880. She died on 26 December 1883, in Maryland, United States, at the age of 35.
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- Herrietta Murray in household of F G Murray, "United States Census, 1860"
- Henrietta Griswold Murray Robey, "Find A Grave Index"
- Henrietta B Murray in entry for Kennerley Robey, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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1851 · Fire Devastates the Library of Congress
On Christmas Eve 1851, 35,000 of the volumes including many of Thomas Jefferson's own personal collections are lost in a fire that destroys two-thirds of the Library of Congress.
1856 · The Largest Map Company in the World
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.
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
Scottish: habitational name from Moray in northeastern Scotland, which derives from Celtic mori- ‘sea’ + treb- ‘settlement’. The founder of the Scottish house of Murray was a Fleming named Freskin who was granted Strathbrock in West Lothian and Duffus in Moray by David I. The family took its name from the region in the late 12th century.
Irish and Scottish: shortened form of McMurray .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muireadhaigh ‘descendant of Muireadhach’ a personal name meaning ‘mariner’. Occasionally it may be a shortened form of McMurray .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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