Paulina Jane Tompkins
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Parents
Lucretia Snell
Lucretia Snell
1798 - 1856
Spouse
Children
Ambrose E Bourn
Ambrose E Bourn
1849 - 1905
John Dudley Bourn
John Dudley Bourn
1850 - 1912
Lucy Francis Bourn
Lucy Francis Bourn
1854 - 1937
Nancy J Bourn
Nancy J Bourn
1857 - 1947
Joseph Anderson Bourn
Joseph Anderson Bourn
1860 - 1937
Mary Susan Bourn
Mary Susan Bourn
1862 - 1940
Charles Albert Bourn
Charles Albert Bourn
1866 - 1937
Siblings

1845


Dec 4
Age: 15y

1846


Sep 23
Age: 16y
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1848


Age: 17y
1848 • In Catalonia, Spain, the BarcelonaMataró railroad route (the first to be constructed in the Iberian Peninsula) is inaugurated.

1852


Jan
Age: 21y
1852 Germans were encouraged to immigrate to Chile

1857


Jan
Age: 26y
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1859


Age: 28y
1859 Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope for the first time.

1860


Age: 29y
1860 • The combined forces of Giuseppe Garibaldi and King Victor Emmanuel II besiege King Francis II of the Two Sicilies in Gaeta, his last remaining stronghold.
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1861


Age: 30y
1861 • American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Weed Convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
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1862


Age: 31y
1862 • American Civil War: Henry W. Halleck takes command of the Union Army.

1863


Nov 22
Age: 33y
1863 • Radicals in Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, northern Ukraine and western Russia join the January Uprising.
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1867


Age: 36y
1867 Maronite nationalist leader Karam leaves Lebanon aboard a French ship for Algeria.

1900


Age: 69y
1900 • The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.

1910


Age: 79y
1910 • The electric streetcars of Austria-Hungary, France, Germany and Great Britain are carrying 6.7 million riders per year.

1917


Jan 3
Age: 86y
1917 • German saboteurs set off the Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland, NJ (now Lyndhurst, NJ), one of the events leading to U.S. involvement in WWI.

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