Paulina Jane Tompkins
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Parents
Lucretia Snell
Lucretia Snell
1798 - 1856
Spouse
Children
Ambrose E Bourn
Ambrose E Bourn
1849 - 1905
John Dudley Bourn
John Dudley Bourn
1850 - 1912
Lucy Francis Bourn
Lucy Francis Bourn
1854 - 1937
Nancy J Bourn
Nancy J Bourn
1857 - 1947
Joseph Anderson Bourn
Joseph Anderson Bourn
1860 - 1937
Mary Susan Bourn
Mary Susan Bourn
1862 - 1940
Charles Albert Bourn
Charles Albert Bourn
1866 - 1937
Siblings

1845


Dec 4
Age: 15y
1845 • The United State Congress establishes a uniform date for federal elections, which will henceforth be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

1846


Sep 23
Age: 16y
1846 Mexican–American War: Open conflict begins over border disputes of Texas' boundaries.
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1848


Age: 17y
1848 • The Independent Republic of Yucatán joins Mexico in exchange for Mexican help in suppressing a revolt by the indigenous Maya population.

1852


Jan
Age: 21y
1852 • The new Palace of Westminster was opened in London.

1857


Jan
Age: 26y
1857 • The Dunbar wrecked near the entrance to Sydney Harbour, Australia, with the loss of 121 lives.
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1859


Age: 28y
1859 District nursing begins in Liverpool, England, when philanthropist William Rathbone employs Mary Robinson to nurse the sick poor in their own homes.

1860


Age: 29y
1860 • Assisted by the British navy, the troops of Giuseppe Garibaldi cross from Sicily to the Italian mainland.
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1861


Age: 30y
1861 • American Civil War: The Crittenden-Johnson Resolution is passed by the U.S. Congress, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
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1862


Age: 31y

1863


Nov 22
Age: 33y
1863 Bartolomé Mitre secretly backs the revolt of Venancio Flores against the Uruguayan Blanco government
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1867


Age: 36y
1867 Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million from Alexander II of Russia, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this "Seward's Folly".
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1869


Age: 38y

1900


Age: 69y
1900 • The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.

1910


Age: 79y
1910 • The earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.

1917


Jan 3
Age: 86y
1917 • One of English literature's important meetings takes place when Wilfred Owen introduces himself to Siegfried Sassoon at the Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh.

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