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Mordecai W. Shinault 1839

Mordecai W. Shinault was born in 1839 in Caroline County, Va to Gray Shinault and Lillie Saunders. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mordecai W. Shinault.
Mordecai W. Shinault
1839
Caroline County, Va
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In 1839, in the year that Mordecai W. Shinault was born, in The Boston Morning Post, on March 23rd, the first recorded use of the word "OK" appeared. A columnist in the paper said this: "The "Chairman of the Committee on Charity Lecture Bells, is one of the deputation, and perhaps if he should return to Boston, via Providence, he of the Journal, and his train-band, would have his 'contribution box,' et ceteras, o.k.—all correct—and cause the corks to fly, like sparks, upward." While this is the first known time that OK appeared in print, where the word came from is still disputed.
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In 1859, from August 28th through September 2nd, the largest solar storm recorded - the solar storm of 1859 - occurred. The Northern lights were seen as far south as Cuba and it knocked out telegraph communications.
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