♀ 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 Carlos Manuel de Céspedes declares a revolt against Spanish rule in Cuba in an event known as El Grito de Yara, initiating a war that lasts ten years (Cuba ultimately loses the war at a cost of 400,000 lives and widespread destruction).

1895


Age: 26y

1897


May 18
Age: 29y
1897 • The Sigma Pi Fraternity is founded.

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 Yale University celebrates its bicentennial.

1901


Age: 32y

birth of child


Vesta Helen Johnson
1901 • The United Kingdom and Germany agree the frontier between German East Africa and the British colony of Nyasaland.

1904


Mar 6
Age: 35y
1904 GWR 3440 City of Truro becomes the first railway locomotive to exceed 100 mph.

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