When Dwight William Tryon was born on 13 August 1849, in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, his father, Anson Tryon, was 30 and his mother, Delia O. Roberts, was 30. He married Alice Hepzibah Belden on 15 July 1873, in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. He lived in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States in 1920 and United States in 1925. He died on 1 July 1925, in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 75.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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English (Lincolnshire, Rutland and Northamptonshire): altered form of Dutch Trion, itself a shortened variant of Tirion, a cognate of Walloon and French Thiry .
History: A Northamptonshire family of this name trace their descent from Peter Trieon (died 1611), who went to England from the Netherlands c. 1562. His son, Moses Tryon, was high sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1624. William Tryon (born 1729 in Surrey, England) was the last provincial governor of NY; he gave his name to Tryon County, the district which took in the Mohawk Valley; after the American Revolution this huge area was split into Montgomery, Fulton, and other counties.
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