Francina Louisa Griffith
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John Van Deusen
John Van Deusen
1825 - 1891
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1843

1843 • The first major wagon train headed for the American Northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail.

1864


Nov 30
Age: 22y
1864 American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.

1871


Mar 2
Age: 28y
1871 New York City residents, tired of the corruption of Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed, meet to form the "Committee of Seventy" to reform local politics.Mitchell Snay, Horace Greeley and the Politics of Reform in Nineteenth-Century America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011) p172

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