Ida Elizabeth Fountain
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Isaac Frank Fountain
Isaac Frank Fountain
1847 - 1889
Mary Malena Fisher
Mary Malena Fisher
1859 - 1937
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1883


Sep 29
1883 Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Black Arrow first appears as a serial in the British magazine Young Folks; A Boys' and Girls' Paper of Instructive and Entertaining Literature as by "Captain George North". Stevenson completes writing it at the end of the summer in France.

1900


Jun 14
Age: 16y
1900 • The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.

1902


Age: 18y

1907


Age: 23y

marriage


Joseph Adriel Peabody Sr.
Castle Rock, Washington, USA ⇓
1907 • The first taxicabs with taxi meters begin operating in London.

1917


Jun 24
Age: 33y
1917 • WWI: Greece joins the war on the side of the Allies.

1927


Aug 30
Age: 43y
1927 • Kern and Hammerstein's musical play, Show Boat, based on Edna Ferber's novel, opens on Broadway and then goes on to become the first great classic of the American musical theater.

1965


Jan
Age: 81y
1965 • President Lyndon B. Johnson makes his "We Shall Overcome" speech.

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