Researching George Ord
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1973 people with the Ord surname? In that year Ord was ranked number 1853 for popularity in the UK. |
The name George means "A Tiller of the Soil or a Farmer" and is of Greek origin.
Records of George Ord on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for George Ord and the Ord Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 2596 people with the Ord surname in the UK? Ord is now ranked number 2007 for popularity in the UK. |
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George Ord
George Ord (March 4, 1781 – January 24, 1866) was an American zoologist who specialized in North American ornithology and mammology. Based in part on specimens collected by Lewis and Clark in the North American interior, Ord's article "Zoology of North America" (1815), which was published in the second American edition of William Guthrie's Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar (Johnson and Warner), has been recognized as the "first systematic zoology of America by an American".
Ord (1815) published the first scientific descriptions of Pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana), Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), Meadow vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus), Bushy-tailed woodrat (Neotoma cinerea), Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis pennsylvanicus), Columbian ground squirrel (Urocitellus columbianus), Black-tailed prairie-dog (Cynomys ludovicianus), Bonaparte's gull (Chroicocephalus philadelphia), Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis), Tundra swan (Cygnus columbianus), and Columbian sharp-tailed grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus columbianus).
Ord is widely known for challenging the works of John James Audubon.
Source: George Ord, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Ord
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