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Personal data George Sumner Merritt 

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Household of George Sumner Merritt

He is married to Marie Louise Illingworth.

They got married on August 1, 1867 at Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA, he was 22 years old.


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    1. 1880 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
      birth date: 16 Aug 1844 birth place: Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA residence date: 1880 residence place: Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Name: George Sumner Merritt
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    Historical events

    Birthday August 16, 1844

    • The temperature on August 16, 1844 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: half bewolkt. Source: KNMI
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      De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
    • In the year 1844: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
      • February 27 » The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
      • March 8 » King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
      • March 21 » The Bahá'í calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bahá'í Faith as the Bahá'í New Year or Náw-Rúz.
      • May 24 » Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from a committee room in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C.
      • June 15 » Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
      • September 28 » Oscar I of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden.

    Day of marriage August 1, 1867

    • The temperature on August 1, 1867 was about 17.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
    • In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
      • January 15 » Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
      • February 17 » The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
      • August 28 » The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
      • September 2 » Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō, thereafter known as Empress Shōken.
      • November 9 » Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
      • December 13 » A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six.

    Day of death October 17, 1925

    • The temperature on October 17, 1925 was between -1.7 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1925: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 7.3 million citizens.
      • January 3 » Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
      • February 28 » The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.
      • March 21 » The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
      • April 16 » During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
      • April 26 » Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
      • July 18 » Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.
    

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