When Samuel Ogden Edison was born on 16 August 1804, in Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Samuel Edison, was 37 and his mother, Nancy Stimpson, was 34. He married Nancy Matthews Elliott on 12 September 1828, in Vienna, Elgin, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Fort Gratiot Township, St. Clair, Michigan, United States for about 10 years and Port Huron, St. Clair, Michigan, United States in 1896. He died on 26 February 1896, in Norwalk, Huron, Ohio, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Port Huron, St. Clair, Michigan, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Oldest grave seen in the memorials list.
The first building to serve as the State Capitol was originally built as the Territorial Courthouse. The brick structure was one of Michigan's earliest Greek revival buildings. The building housed the territorial government and state legislatures until 1848, when the capital moved from Detroit to Lansing. The building then became a public school and library until it burned down in 1893.
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.
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