Catherine Van Norden
Parents
Sarah Fischer
Sarah Fischer
1792 - 1864
William A Van Norden
William A Van Norden
1795 - 1871
Spouse
Charles Hicks
Charles Hicks
1806 - 1879
Children
Thomas R Hicks
Thomas R Hicks
1829 - 1908
Josephine Hicks
Josephine Hicks
1835 - 1921
Walter E Hicks
Walter E Hicks
1847 - 1892
Jessie Hicks
Jessie Hicks
1849 - 1875

The name Van Norden comes from Naardan, a town in Holland, and a former province of the Netherlands.  Her name was found written as 'Vanhorden' on her son Walter's marriage record ('horden' most likely misread for Norden).  In the book "the Ancestry and Descendants of Cornelius and John J. Van Deusen" it is listed as Van Norden.

1829


Age: 17y

1840


Age: 28y
Charles Hicks - 1840 Census

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In the two houses behind Charles Hicks, there is a Mrs. Van Norden aged 20-30, and then a Wm A Van Norden aged 40-50 years. Also living on the same page as Charles Hicks is an Abraham Van Norden. William Van Norden's brother James is also living in ward 14, on page 418. modified
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1840 • The Austrian Empire, the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Russian Empire sign the Convention of London with the Sublime Porte, ruler of the Ottoman Empire.
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1844


Age: 32y
1844 • The United States signs the Treaty of Wanghia with the Chinese Government, the first ever diplomatic agreement between China and the United States.

1849


Age: 37y
1849 • Abolition of the Corn Laws by the United Kingdom's Importation Act 1846 comes fully into effect.
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1850


Age: 38y
1850 Phi Kappa Sigma International Fraternity was founded at the University of Pennsylvania.

1850


Age: 38y
1850 • Vice President Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th President of the United States following the death of President Taylor.
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1851


Age: 39y
1851 Ariel and Umbriel, moons of Uranus, are discovered by William Lassell.
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1854


Age: 42y
1854 • The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law, replacing the Missouri Compromise (of 1820), thus act creating the Kansas Territory and the Nebraska Territory, west of the State of Missouri and the State of Iowa. The Kansas-Nebraska Act also established that those two new Territories would decide either to allow or disallow slavery depending on balloting by their residents. These areas would have been strictly "free territory" under the Missouri Compromise, which allowed slavery in the State of Missouri but disallowed it in any other new state north of the latitude 36 degrees, 30 minutes, which forms most of the southern boundary of Missouri. This prohibition of slavery extended all the way from the western boundary of Missouri to the Pacific Ocean.

1880


Age: 68y
Catherine Van Nordon - 1880 United States Federal Census

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓
Widowed and living with her daughter and son-in-law, Issac Van Deusen
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1880 • A big earthquake struck Zagreb and demolished everything including the Zagreb Cathedral.

1903


Feb 5
Age: 91y
1903 • In New York City, the Martha Washington Hotel, the first hotel exclusively for women, opens.

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