Brief Life History of George Edward
When George Edward Tryon Sr was born on 22 May 1885, in Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States, his father, John Shugart Tryon, was 34 and his mother, Delana Yates, was 30. He married Nellie Constantia Sahlstrom in 1907, in Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Nobles, Minnesota, United States in 1950. He died on 22 November 1963, in Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Worthington Memorial Gardens, Worthington, Nobles, Minnesota, United States.
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- George E Tryon, "United States 1950 Census"
- George E Tryon, "Minnesota, County Marriages, 1860-1949"
- George Edward Tryon, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1893 · The Minnesota State Flag
The Flag of Minnesota was adopted on August 2 and consists of scenes from the seal of Minnesota. The flag has been modified over the years to be easier to manufacture.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Name Meaning
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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