Brief Life History of John
When John Olin was born in 1809, in South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Joseph Olin, was 28 and his mother, Eunice Emma Field, was 23. He died in 1811, at the age of 2, and was buried in Shaftsbury Center, Shaftsbury, Bennington, Vermont, United States.
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- Jonathan Olin, "Find A Grave Index"
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1811 · USS Revenge
On January 9, 1811, the USS Revenge hits a reef off of Watch Hill, Rhode Island. The load the ship is carrying is handed off to other ships and the USS Revenge is tied down by tow ropes. It brakes free from the ropes and later sinks. In 2011 divers find what are believed to be the remains of the ship.
Name Meaning
Jewish (from Ukraine): from Ukrainian olin ‘stag’. This name is either ornamental or represents a calque of Yiddish personal name Hirsch .
Swedish: variant of Ohlin .
French: from a shortened form of the personal name Odolin, a pet form of an ancient Germanic compound name with the first element odal ‘inherited property, fortune’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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