♀ Mary Ellen Gristy

1868 - 1904

Mary Ellen Gristy
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Walter Arthur Johnson
Walter Arthur Johnson
1867 - 1929
Children

1868


May 11
1868 • The British War Office sanctions the formation of what becomes the Army Post Office Corps.

1895


Age: 26y
1895 • The gold reserve of the U.S. Treasury is saved when J. P. Morgan and the Rothschilds loan $65 million worth of gold to the United States government.

1897


May 18
Age: 29y
1897 • The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground metro in North America.

1899


Age: 30y

birth of child


Charles Arthur Johnson
1899 • The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.

1901


Age: 32y
1901 • The body of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is exhumed and reinterred in concrete several feet thick.

1901


Age: 32y

birth of child


Vesta Helen Johnson
1901 Viceroy of India Lord Curzon creates the new North-West Frontier Province in the north of the Punjab region, bordering Afghanistan.

1904


Mar 6
Age: 35y
1904 • The distress signal CQD is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by SOS.

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