When Mary Jane Condit was born in August 1837, in Delaware, Ohio, United States, her father, Amos William Condit, was 32 and her mother, Ann Tompkins, was 30. She had at least 1 son with Matthew McQuig. She lived in Judicial Township 5, Amador, California, United States in 1870 and Watsonville, Santa Cruz, California, United States in 1880. She died on 24 November 1908, in Orange, California, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Santa Ana Cemetery, Santa Ana, Orange, California, United States.
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By 1829 Venus, Illinois had grown sufficiently and in 1832 was one of the contenders for the new county seat. However, the honor was awarded to a nearby city, Carthage. In 1834 the name Venus was changed to Commerce because the settlers felt that the new name better suited their plans. But during late 1839, arriving members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought the small town of Commerce and in April 1840 it was renamed Nauvoo by Joseph Smith Jr., who led the Latter-Day Saints to Nauvoo to escape persecution in Missouri. The name Nauvoo is derived from the traditional Hebrew language. It is notable that by 1844 Nauvoo's population had swollen to around 12,000 residents, rivaling the size of Chicago at the time. After the Latter-Day Saints left the population settled down toward 2,000 people.
After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.
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.
English: variant of Condict . Compare Conditt .
History: Bearers of the surname Condit trace their origin to Peter Condict (Cunditt) from England, who lived in Newark, NJ, in the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th century. Spellings Condit(t) and Cunditt did not survive in England.
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