Susan Augustine Alexander
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Spouse
Ambrose E Bourn
Ambrose E Bourn
1849 - 1905
Children
Lena Elsie Mae Bourn
Lena Elsie Mae Bourn
1886 - 1963
Ellen Pauline Bourn
Ellen Pauline Bourn
1899 - 1984

1865


Jan 29
1865 • The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Australia.

1886


Jan 12
Age: 20y

birth of child


Lena Elsie Mae Bourn
Texas, USA ⇓
1886 • U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House (Washington, D.C.), becoming the only president of the United States to wed in the executive mansion. She is 27 years his junior.

1899


Jun 4
Age: 34y

1900


Age: 34y
1900 • The British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land on Crete on which the ruins of the palace of Knossos stand. He begins to unearth some of the palace three days later.

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