Gall/Genseal Family Tree » James A Orr (1848-1927)
Personal data James A Orr
Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7- He was born on March 6, 1848 in Sangamon Co., Illinois, Verenigde Staten.Sources 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
- Resident:
- in the year 1900: Hanford, Kings, California, USA.Source 6
- in the year 1850: Sangamon, Illinois, USA.Source 1
- in the year 1860: Township 11 N Range 4 W (West half), Montgomery, Illinois, Verenigde Staten.Source 7
- in the year 1870: Township 11 Range 5, Montgomery, Illinois, Verenigde Staten.Source 3
- He died on April 6, 1927 in Kings, California, Verenigde Staten, he was 79 years old.Sources 4, 5
- He is buried in Hanford, Kings County, California, USA.Source 4
- A child of Andrew R. Orr and Honor Catherine Reiger
Household of James A Orr
He is married to Emmeline Sherrell.
They got married in the year 1870 at Macoupin, Illinois, USA, he was 21 years old.Sources 2, 6
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Sources
- 1850 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1850; Census Place: Sangamon, Illinois; Roll: M432_127; Page: 140A; Image: 287 / Ancestry.com
- Illinois, Marriage Index, 1860-1920, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- 1870 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1870; Census Place: Township 11 Range 5, Montgomery, Illinois; Roll: M593_262; Page: 314A; Family History Library Film: 545761 / Ancestry.com
- U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- California, Death Index, 1905-1939, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- 1900 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1900; Census Place: Hanford, Kings, California; Roll: 87; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 0037; FHL microfilm: 1240087 / Ancestry.com
- 1860 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1860; Census Place: Township 11 N Range 4 W (West half), Montgomery, Illinois; Roll: M653_214; Page: 261; Family History Library Film: 803214 / Ancestry.com
Historical events
Birthday March 6, 1848
- The temperature on March 6, 1848 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: betrokken. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
- From November 21, 1848 till November 1, 1849 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Kempenaer - Donker Curtius with the prime ministers Mr. J.M. de Kempenaer (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. D. Donker Curtius (conservatief-liberaal).
- In the year 1848: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
- February 24 » King Louis-Philippe of France abdicates the throne.
- March 4 » Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia.
- May 3 » The boar-crested Anglo-Saxon Benty Grange helmet is discovered in a barrow on the Benty Grange farm in Derbyshire.
- August 19 » California Gold Rush: The New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California (although the rush started in January).
- November 1 » In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
- December 2 » Franz Joseph I becomes Emperor of Austria.
Day of death April 6, 1927
- The temperature on April 6, 1927 was between 3.9 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 16.6 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
- In the year 1927: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
- January 7 » The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City to London.
- May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
- June 29 » The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
- August 23 » Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
- December 17 » Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.
- December 19 » Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan, are executed by the British Raj for participation in the Kakori conspiracy.
Same birth/death day
- 1831 » Philip Sheridan, Irish-American general († 1888)
- 1834 » George du Maurier, French-English author and illustrator († 1896)
- 1841 » Viktor Burenin, Russian author, poet, playwright, and critic († 1926)
- 1849 » Georg Luger, Austrian gun designer, designed the Luger pistol († 1923)
- 1864 » Richard Rushall, British businessman († 1953)
- 1870 » Oscar Straus, Viennese composer and conductor († 1954)
- 1913 » Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore (b. 1835)
- 1923 » Kabalega, King of Bunyoro (b.1853)
- 1927 » Florence Earle Coates, American poet (b. 1850)
- 1935 » Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet and playwright (b. 1869)
- 1944 » Rose O'Neill, American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer (b. 1874)
- 1947 » Herbert Backe, German agronomist and politician (b. 1896)
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The Gall/Genseal Family Tree publication was prepared by Catherine Spry.
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Catherine Spry, "Gall/Genseal Family Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/spry-family-tree/I233.php : accessed May 9, 2025), "James A Orr (1848-1927)".