Samuel Ogden Edison

Brief Life History of Samuel Ogden

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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Family Time Line

Samuel Ogden Edison
1804–1896
Nancy Matthews Elliott
1810–1871
Marriage: 12 September 1828
Marion Wallace Edison
1829–1900
William Pitt Edison
1831–1891
Harriet Ann Edison
1833–1863
Carlile Snow Edison
1836–1842
Samuel Ogden Edison III
1840–1843
Eliza Smith Edison
1844–1847
Thomas Alva Edison
1847–1931

Sources (32)

  • Samuel Edison in household of Joseph Sharlow, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952
  • Samuel Edison, "Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001"

World Events (8)

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

1814

Oldest grave seen in the memorials list.

1828 · Michigan Capitol Building Constructed

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.

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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