♂ Martin Van Buren

1782 - 1862

 

Old Kinderhook

Martin Van Buren
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Parents
Abraham Van Buren
Abraham Van Buren
1737 - 1817
Maria Hoes
Maria Hoes
1747 - 1818
Spouse
Hannah Hoes
Hannah Hoes
1783 - 1819

8th president of the United States.

1782


Dec 5

birth


Kinderhook, Columbia, New York, USA ⇓
The picture is of a historical marker at his birthplace in a Kinderhook, which at the time was an isolated village of mostly Dutch descent. Martin Van Buren was the only president to speak English as a second language. His father was a farmer and owned an inn there. He had four full siblings, and three older half-siblings from his mother's first marriage.
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1782 • The British parliament extends James Watt's patent for the steam engine to the year 1800.

1782


Dec 15
Age: 10d

baptism


Baptismal record from the Kinderhook Dutch Reformed Church. Van Buren's name was spelled "Maarten" in Dutch.
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1782 John Adams secures recognition of the United States as an independent government by the Dutch Republic. During this visit, he also negotiates a loan of five million guilders financed by Nicolaas van Staphorst and Wilhelm Willink.

1807


Feb 21
Age: 24y
1807 • With the death of Henry Benedict Stuart, the last Stuart claimant to the throne of the United Kingdom, the movement of Jacobitism comes to an effective end.

1837


Age: 53y

occupation


Elected in 1836, US president until 1841. The picture is an 1858 portrait on display at the White House. He coined the term "OK" for his presidential campaign, short for "Old Kinderhook", partly responsible for the wide usage of the word today.
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1837 • In Philadelphia, The Institute for Colored Youth (ICY) is founded as the first institution for the higher education of black people in the United States.

1862


Jul 24
Age: 79y
Martin Van Buren - Wikipedia

death


Kinderhook, Columbia, New York, USA ⇓
Van Buren's health began to fail later in 1861, and he was bedridden with pneumonia during the fall and winter of 1861-1862. He did not recover, and died of bronchial asthma and heart failure at his Lindenwald estate in Kinderhook at 2:00 a.m. on July 24.
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1862 American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia into two. Meanwhile, the Battle of Stones River is fought near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

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