♀ Ella Edith Campbell

1872 - 1944

 

Ellie

Ella Edith Campbell
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Parents
Robert Campbell
Robert Campbell
1834 - 1914
Martha Bailey
Martha Bailey
1836 - 1894
Spouse
Children

1872


Oct 27
1872 • The Mary Celeste sets sail from New York; bound for Genoa, Italy.

1893


Mar 2
Age: 20y
1893 • The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, USA. The first United States commemorative postage stamps are issued for the Exposition.

1897


Jun 14
Age: 24y
1897 • Spain grants Puerto Rico autonomy.

1899


Age: 26y

1901


Age: 28y
1901 • U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
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1904


Age: 31y

birth of child


Imogene Johnson
1904 • The stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premieres in London.
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1906


Age: 33y

birth of child


Neoma Johnson
1906 Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
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1909


Age: 36y

birth of child


Irena Johnson
1909 • The United States Army Signal Corp Division purchases the world's first military airplane, a Wright Military Flyer, from the Wright Brothers.

1910


Age: 37y
James Davidson Johnson - 1910 United States Federal Census

residence


Miller, Scotland, Missouri, USA ⇓
James Davidson Johnson and his wife Ella Campbell have six children in this census; Leo, Loyd, Alma, Robert, Emogene, Namoah, and Irena. They're living with Ella's father, Robert Campbell. James Davidson is a farm laborer.
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1910 • The electric streetcars of Austria-Hungary, France, Germany and Great Britain are carrying 6.7 million riders per year.

1911


Feb 6
Age: 38y
1911 • The very first Indianapolis 500, won by Ray Harroun at an average speed of 74.59 miles per hour.

1913


Mar 29
Age: 40y

1930


Age: 57y
1930 Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.

1940


Apr 24
Age: 67y
Eugene Lyon - 1940 United States Federal Census

location


Cedar Township, Van Buren, Iowa, USA ⇓
Ella is living with her daughter Grace and her husband Eugene
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1940 Ed Ricketts, John Steinbeck and six others leave Monterey, California for The Sea of Cortez on a collecting expedition.

1944


Jun 23
Age: 71y
1944 • British Group Captain James Stagg correctly forecasts a brief improvement in weather conditions over the English Channel which will permit the following day's Normandy landings to take place (having been deferred from today due to unfavourable weather).

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