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Name: CORYELL, John Abraham
Nee: son of Elijah Coryell, Canada
Birth Date: 23 Feb 1861 Ontario
Death Date: 6 Nov 1912 Tucson, Arizona, pulmonary TB
First Date: 1906
Profession: Surveyor, civil engineer
Area: Eldama Ravine, Nairobi
Married: In Herkimer, New York 21 Aug 1909 Emma Ferguson Gordon b. 3 Feb 1862 New York
Book Reference: Land, EAHB 1906, Gazette, North
War Service: Boer War 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles
General Information:
Land - 1906 - C. Grant and J. Coryell - Grazing, 10,000 acres, Eldama Ravine, 8-1-04, Registered 19-12-06
EAHB 1906 - J.A. Coryell, Nairobi
Gazette - 20/5/14 - Land reverted to Crown - John Abraham Coryell - Grand Forks City, British Columbia, Canada and Eldama Ravine
North - Engineer, formerly in Transvaal; arr. Mombasa from Lourenco Marques 13-12-1904; dep. Mombasa up-country to survey the E.S. Grogan timber concession 15-12-1904; Licensed to practice as surveyor, Eldama Ravine 19-12-1904; working for Grogan May 1905; prospector's Licence Nairobi April-Jun & Oct - Dec 1905; Land Grant application, Ravine 30-10-1905
Ancestry US death cert - informant Frank T. Coryell