Edgecomb Family Tree » Owen Bennett Edgecomb (1915-2005)
Personal data Owen Bennett Edgecomb
- The name is of type 'name given at or near birth'
- He was born on November 11, 1915 in Sangerville, Piscataquis, ME.
- He died on January 23, 2005 in Spring Hill, Hernando,, Flevoland, Nederland, he was 89 years old.
- A child of Perley Austin Edgecomb and Mildred Edith Bennett
- This information was last updated on March 4, 2020.
Household of Owen Bennett Edgecomb
(1) He is married to Opal Myra Maxim.
They got married on September 12, 1937 at Dexter, Penobscot, ME, he was 21 years old.
They got married.Child(ren):
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- Dawn Eileen Edgecomb 1938-1991
(2) He is married to Winifred Lillian Gower Edgecomb.
They got married.
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Historical events
Birthday November 11, 1915
- The temperature on November 11, 1915 was between 3.8 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
- January 31 » World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
- May 6 » Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
- July 5 » The Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. This is the last trip outside Philadelphia that the custodians of the bell intend to permit.
- July 24 » The passenger ship SSEastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
- August 4 » World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
- October 14 » World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.
Day of marriage September 12, 1937
- The temperature on September 12, 1937 was between 6.0 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1937: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
- July 7 » The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
- July 8 » Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
- July 22 » New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
- September 22 » Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken, ending the Battle of El Mazuco.
- October 2 » Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the northwestern region of the Dominican Republic.
- November 8 » The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
Day of death January 23, 2005
- The temperature on January 23, 2005 was between -2 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
- In the year 2005: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
- February 14 » YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.
- March 26 » Around 200,000 to 300,000 Taiwanese demonstrate in Taipei in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of China.
- April 14 » The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
- April 22 » Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record.
- October 19 » Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
- November 30 » John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
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The Edgecomb Family Tree publication was prepared by Heather Edgecomb.
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Heather Edgecomb, "Edgecomb Family Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/edgecomb-family-tree/I418.php : accessed May 12, 2025), "Owen Bennett Edgecomb (1915-2005)".
Heather Edgecomb, "Edgecomb Family Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/edgecomb-family-tree/I418.php : accessed May 12, 2025), "Owen Bennett Edgecomb (1915-2005)".