Brief Life History of Orson E
When Orson E Rowley was born on 19 December 1818, in Connecticut, United States, his father, Hiel Rowley, was 28 and his mother, Anna Lyman, was 27. He married Keziah Sweet about 1837. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Michigan, United States in 1870 and Orleans, Orleans Township, Ionia, Michigan, United States in 1880. He died on 12 February 1885, in Easton Township, Ionia, Michigan, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Ionia, Ionia, Michigan, United States.
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- Orson E Rowley, "United States Census, 1870"
- Orson E. Rowley, "Michigan, Deaths, 1867-1897"
- Orson Rowley in entry for Sarah Jane Heald, "Michigan Deaths, 1867-1897"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1829 · Farmington Canal Opened
Farmington Canal spans 2,476 acres, starting from New Haven, Connecticut, and on to Northampton, Massachusetts. The groundbreaking for the canal was in 1825 and opened in 1829.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from one or more of various places called Rowley or Rowly, such as Rowley Regis (Staffordshire), Rowley (Devon, Durham), Rowleygreen Farm (Hertfordshire), Rowly (Surrey), Rowley (East Yorkshire), Rowley, near Bardsey (Yorkshire), Rowley in Lepton (Yorkshire), and Rowley Hill (Essex). The placenames probably all derive from Old English rūh ‘rough’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, though the East Yorkshire place may have been named with hlāw ‘mound, hill’ as the second element.
Irish: from Ó Roghallaigh, a variant of Ó Raghailligh. See Riley and O'Reilly .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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