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Sterling Parker Rounds

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Sterling Parker Rounds

Birth
Berkshire, Franklin County, Vermont, USA
Death
17 Dec 1887 (aged 59)
Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA
Burial
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA GPS-Latitude: 41.9873903, Longitude: -87.6759333
Plot
Section F
Memorial ID
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From " Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteeth Century":

"Rounds, Sterling Parker, printer, was born June 27, 1828, in Berkshire, Vt. He migrated to Chicago in 1851; and soon afterward opened a printer's warehouse. In 1856 the business was extended by the addition of the printer's electrotype foundry, and the first number of Rounds' Printer' Cabinet, still in existence, was issued. He was appointed public printer in 1881; but he removed to Omaha in 1885 and was identified with the Republican till his death. He died December 17, 1887, in Omaha, NE."
Cenotaph Memorial - Named on parents marker. Sterling's remains taken to Chicago for burial.

Son of Lester Rounds and Aurela Parker

Married Martha A. Dustin, 8 December 1850, Racine, Racine, Wisconsin

Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteeth Century

"Rounds, Sterling Parker, printer, was born June 27, 1828, in Berkshire, Vt. He migrated to Chicago in 1851; and soon afterward opened a printer's warehouse. In 1856 the business was extended by the addition of the printer's electrotype foundry, and the first number of Rounds' Printer' Cabinet, still in existence, was issued. He was appointed public printer in 1881; but he removed to Omaha in 1885 and was identified with the Republican till his death. He died December 17, 1887, in Omaha, NE."

Biography of Sterling Parker Rounds
From " Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteeth Century":

"Rounds, Sterling Parker, printer, was born June 27, 1828, in Berkshire, Vt. He migrated to Chicago in 1851; and soon afterward opened a printer's warehouse. In 1856 the business was extended by the addition of the printer's electrotype foundry, and the first number of Rounds' Printer' Cabinet, still in existence, was issued. He was appointed public printer in 1881; but he removed to Omaha in 1885 and was identified with the Republican till his death. He died December 17, 1887, in Omaha, NE."
Cenotaph Memorial - Named on parents marker. Sterling's remains taken to Chicago for burial.

Son of Lester Rounds and Aurela Parker

Married Martha A. Dustin, 8 December 1850, Racine, Racine, Wisconsin

Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteeth Century

"Rounds, Sterling Parker, printer, was born June 27, 1828, in Berkshire, Vt. He migrated to Chicago in 1851; and soon afterward opened a printer's warehouse. In 1856 the business was extended by the addition of the printer's electrotype foundry, and the first number of Rounds' Printer' Cabinet, still in existence, was issued. He was appointed public printer in 1881; but he removed to Omaha in 1885 and was identified with the Republican till his death. He died December 17, 1887, in Omaha, NE."

Biography of Sterling Parker Rounds


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