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Children
1872
Jul 28
| 1872 • A meteor shower display is seen over France. |
1892
Age: 19y
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marriageGillum M Shelton Jasper, Jasper, Missouri, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1892 • Ellis Island begins accommodating immigrants to the United States. |
1892
Oct
Age: 20y
birth of childIda M Shelton Missouri, USA ⇓ |
1895
Mar
Age: 22y
birth of childEva Shelton Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1895 • George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile. |
1897
Sep
Age: 25y
birth of childThomas Shelton Missouri, USA ⇓ |
| 1897 • April 15 Drillers near Bartlesville, Oklahoma, strike oil for the first time in the designated "Indian Territory", on land leased from the Osage Indians. The gusher, at the Nellie Johnstone Number One well, leads to rapid population growth.W. David Baird and Danney Goble, The Story of Oklahoma (University of Oklahoma Press, 1994) p8 |
1900
Jan 5
Age: 27y
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birth of childWinnie Alice Shelton Missouri, USA ⇓ 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1900 • The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the Imperial German Navy |
1900
Jun 9
Age: 27y
| 1900 • American temperance agitator Carrie Nation begins her crusade to demolish saloons. |
1907
Aug 3
Age: 35y
| 1907 • Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the Anglo-Russian Entente in Saint Petersburg, bringing a pause in The Great Game in Central Asia and establishing the Triple Entente. |