Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel Edison was born on 5 March 1767, in Caldwell, Essex, New Jersey, United States, his father, John Marceles Edeson, was 26 and his mother, Sarah Ogden, was 22. He married Nancy Stimpson on 14 November 1792, in Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 27 March 1865, in Vienna, Elgin, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 98, and was buried in Pioneer Edison Cemetery, Vienna, Elgin, Ontario, Canada.
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- Samuel Edison, "Nova Scotia, Marriages, 1711-1909"
- Samuel Ogden Edison, "Find A Grave Index"
- Samuel Edison in entry for Developed Tenacity, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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1775
"During the six-year Revolutionary war, more of the fights took place in New Jersey than any other colony. Over 296 engagements between opposing forces were recorded. One of the largest conflicts of the entire war took place between Morristown and Middlebrook, referred to as the ""Ten Crucial Days"" and remembered by the famous phrase ""the times that try men's souls"". The revolution won some of their most desperately needed victories during this time."
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Name Meaning
English (Lincolnshire): from the Middle English personal name Ed(de) (a pet form of male and female names beginning with Ed-, such as Edwin , Edward , and Edith , all derived from Old English names beginning with ēad ‘prosperity’) + -son. Occasionally, the name may also be a shortened form of Middle English Edithson ‘son of Edith’, or come from the Middle English female personal name Edus (a pet form of Edith) + -son.
History: The inventor Thomas Alva Edison, born in 1847 in Milan, OH, came from a Canadian family first established in North America by John Edison, a loyalist during the American Revolution, who served under the British General Richard Howe and went into exile in NS, Canada, after the Revolutionary War.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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