Brief Life History of Orson Capron
When Orson Capron Post was born on 16 October 1833, in Wilson, Wilson, Niagara, New York, United States, his father, Stilman W. Post, was 18 and his mother, Nancy Capron, was 41. He married Rose or Angeline Drake about 1859, in Albion, Calhoun, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Brookside Township, Clinton, Illinois, United States in 1880. He died on 21 November 1910, in Centralia, Marion, Illinois, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Centralia, Marion, Illinois, United States.
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- Orsan C Post, "United States Census, 1880"
- Orson A Post, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Orson C. Post, "Illinois Deaths and Burials, 1749-1999"
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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.
1853
Historical Boundaries: 1853: Marion, Illinois, United States [Spreads across Marion, Clinton, Jefferson, and Washington counties]
1856 · The Largest Map Company in the World
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.
Name Meaning
North German, Danish, and Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived near a post or pole (Middle Low German, Middle Dutch post, from Latin postis), presumably one of some significance, e.g. serving as a landmark or boundary, or a habitational name from any of several places in northern Germany called Post, probably from this word.
North German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a messenger or mailman, from post ‘mail’.
Probably also an altered form of German Pfost .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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