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Margaret and Jeremiah were married for 60 years, and had five sons and four daughters. She was married previously to a Michael Conley. Her sister Martha married Jeremiah's brother, George Washington Jenkins.
1814
Jun 24
| 1814 • War of 1812: British troops occupy Washington, D.C., setting numerous buildings on fire, including the Capitol. |
1836
May 25
Age: 21y
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marriageJeremiah Franklin Jenkins Kentucky, USA ⇓ A David Cravens signed their marriage contract. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1836 • The earliest United States patent for a phosphorus friction match is granted to Alonzo Dwight Phillips of Springfield, Massachusetts. |
1838
Aug 1
Age: 24y
| 1838 • The People's Charter is drawn up in the United Kingdom, demanding universal suffrage. |
1840
Age: 25y
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residenceWest Divison, Nelson, Kentucky, USA ⇓ There is a David Cravens living right next door. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1840 • Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland marries her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. |
1840
Feb 5
Age: 25y
1841
Nov 28
Age: 27y
| 1841 • The Mercantile Agency (ancestor of Dun & Bradstreet is founded in New York City by Lewis Tappan. |
1843
Sep 10
Age: 29y
| 1843 • The Friend, a Quaker weekly, is first published in London. |
1845
Nov 26
Age: 31y
| 1845 • The Templars of Honor and Temperance is founded in the United States. |
1848
Feb 20
Age: 33y
| 1848 • In Catalonia, Spain, the Barcelona–Mataró railroad route (the first to be constructed in the Iberian Peninsula) is inaugurated. |
1850
Age: 35y
| 1850 • The American System of Watch Manufacturing starts in Roxbury, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (the Waltham Watch Company). |
1852
Jan 1
Age: 37y
| 1852 • The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, London, admitted its first patient. |
1854
Apr 10
Age: 39y
| 1854 • German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; 2 years later his remains are found in the canal near Charlottenburg. |
1856
Mar 24
Age: 41y
| 1856 • The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg's unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution, as King-Grand Duke William III signs the new constitution without the Chamber of Deputies' consent. |
1860
Aug 9
Age: 46y
| 1860 • Shoe-making workers of Lynn, Massachusetts, strike successfully for higher wages. The strike spreads throughout New England and eventually involves 20,000 workers. |
1861
Age: 46y
| 1861 • HMS Warrior, the world's first ocean-going (all) iron-hulled armored battleship, is completed and commissioned. |
1870
Age: 55y
| 1870 • The Army Weather Bureau (within the Army Signal Corps) is created. |
1871
Sep 2
Age: 57y
| 1871 • The member-states of the North German Federation and the south German states unite into a single nation-state known as the German Empire. The King of Prussia is declared the first German Emperor as Wilhelm I of Germany in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles. |
1891
Dec 1
Age: 77y
| 1891 • The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago. |
1900
Age: 85y
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residenceMarshall, Saline, Missouri, USA ⇓ She was living with her son, John Seldon. 1 Source ⇓ |
1900
Age: 85y
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residenceMarshall, Saline, Missouri, USA ⇓ Living with her son John, who was a gardener. Both her parents are listed as being born in Virginia. 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1900 • American temperance agitator Carrie Nation begins her crusade to demolish saloons. |
1906
Oct 16
Age: 92y
| 1906 • The Azusa Street Revival, the primary catalyst for the revival of Pentecostalism this century, opens in Los Angeles. |
1906
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burialMarshall, Missouri, USA ⇓ Buried at Ridgepark Cemetery 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1906 • In Tsarist Russia, the Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state Duma. |