♀ Mary Jane Switzer

1837 - 1936

Mary Jane Switzer
enlarge profile image
Parents
Peter Switzer
Peter Switzer
1813 - 1862
Spouse
James Summerville
James Summerville
1836 - 1870
Children
Siblings
Elsinda Switzer
Elsinda Switzer
1843 - 1922
John Harvey Switzer
John Harvey Switzer
1849 - 1916

1837


Apr 3
1837 • The city of Houston, is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.

1850


Age: 12y
Peter Switzer, Susannah Crick, & Mary Jane Switzer - 1850 United States Federal Census

residence


Toby, Clarion, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓
Susannah Crick's brother Henry Crick is living next door. There is also a Peter Crick living nearby.
1 Source ⇓
1850 • British foreign secretary Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, sends ships to blockade the port of Piraeus, ostensibly as a result of the Don Pacifico affair.

1860


Age: 22y
1860 • French typesetter Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville sings the French folk song "Au Clair de la Lune" to his phonautograph; producing the world's earliest known sound recording (however, it is not rediscovered until 2008).

1865


Age: 27y

birth of child


Joseph U Summerville
Pennsylvania, USA ⇓
1865 Francis Galton, polymath inventor of the weather map and the silent dog whistle, introduces eugenics.

1930


Age: 92y

1936


Apr 8
Age: 99y
Mary Jane Switzer - Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963

death


Toby, Clarion, Pennsylvania, USA ⇓
It mentions her nephew, a "Jas Summerville." Her name is Green on the record because she remarried Thomas Green after the death of James Summerville.
1 Source ⇓
1936 • Release of the film Natalka Poltavka in Ukraine, the first filmed Russian opera.

Tags