♀ Mary Jane Switzer

1837 - 1936

Mary Jane Switzer
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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 Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, Massachusetts, fueled by ethnic tensions between the Irish and the Yankees.

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.
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1850 • The traditional date of Kansas City, Missouri's founding. This is the date on which it is incorporated by Jackson County, Missouri as the "Town of Kansas".

1865


Age: 27y

birth of child


Joseph U Summerville
Pennsylvania, USA ⇓
1865 • American Civil War: Union Major General Gordon Granger lands at Galveston, Texas and informs the people of Texas of the Emancipation Proclamation (an event celebrated in modern times each year as Juneteenth).

1880


Jun 2
Age: 43y

1930


Age: 92y
1930 • Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scores a world record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a Test match against England.

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.
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1936 • The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Berlin, Germany, and mark the first live television coverage of a sports event in world history. Note that John Logie Baird had previously broadcast the Derby horse race in Britain in 1931.

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