Genealogy Wylie » William Gaston (1809-1868)
Personal data William Gaston
Source 1- He was born on August 8, 1809 in Indiana.Source 1
- He died on June 8, 1868 in California, he was 58 years old.Source 1
- He is buried in San Bernadino,California.Source 1
- A child of Samuel Gaston and Esther Waugh Gaston
- This information was last updated on February 17, 2006.
Household of William Gaston
He is married to Rachel Huff.
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They got married on January 6, 1829 at Marion County, Illinois, he was 19 years old.
Child(ren):
- Caroline Gaston 1831-1895
- Louisa Gaston 1833-1912
- Samuel Gaston 1835-1922
- Margaret Gaston 1837-1920
- Sarah Gaston 1839-1861
- Thomas Benton Gaston 1841-1907
- John Calhoun Gaston 1843-1933
- William Knox Gaston 1845-1846
Notes about William Gaston
BIOGRAPHY: "William Gaston served in the Black Hawk War, Captain William N Dobbin's Syp Battalion. He also served in the Illinois Senate 1828-1842 at Vandalia. He went west to the Gold Rush, this was his purpose in being in California."
Source: Petersen, Lorene K., and Lyle, Jennie Belle, compilers, Knox: James Knox, Sr. and Elizabeth Craig Knox and their Descendants (Pinedale, Arizona:A. Louis and Lorene Kelton Peterson, 1984), Chapter 2 Jannet Knox and John Gaston, Jr., Southeast Arkansas Regional Library, 233 So. Main Street, Monticello, Arkansas 71655.
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Sources
- Knox: James Knox, Sr. and Elizabeth Craig Knox and their Descendants, Petersen, Lorene K., and Lyle, Jennie Belle, compilers, Chapter 2 Jannet Knox and John Gaston, Jr. / Southeast Arkansas Regional Library
Historical events
Birthday August 8, 1809
- The temperature on August 8, 1809 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: omtrent half bewolkt omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.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 1809: Source: Wikipedia
- February 3 » The Territory of Illinois is created by the 10th United States Congress.
- February 24 » London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
- April 20 » Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
- April 21 » Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.
- July 16 » The city of La Paz, in what is today Bolivia, declares its independence from the Spanish Crown during the La Paz revolution and forms the Junta Tuitiva, the first independent government in Spanish America, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo.
- August 10 » Quito, now the capital of Ecuador, declares independence from Spain. This rebellion will be crushed on August 2, 1810.
Day of marriage January 6, 1829
- The temperature on January 6, 1829 was about 0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: half bewolkt winderig. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.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 1829: Source: Wikipedia
- January 19 » Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy receives its premiere performance.
- April 13 » The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 gives Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and to sit in Parliament.
- April 25 » Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
- May 2 » After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMSChallenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia.
- August 3 » The Treaty of Lewistown is signed by the Shawnee and Seneca peoples, exchanging land in Ohio for land west of the Mississippi River.
- October 1 » South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa. It will later separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.
Day of death June 8, 1868
- The temperature on June 8, 1868 was about 16.1 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 51%. 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).
- From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
- In the year 1868: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
- March 1 » The Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia.
- March 8 » Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai, Osaka.
- May 14 » Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward.
- September 19 » La Gloriosa begins in Spain.
- October 7 » Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
- December 10 » The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
Same birth/death day
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- 1807 » Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish author († 1892)
- 1814 » Esther Hobart Morris, American suffragette and judge († 1902)
- 1822 » George Stoneman, Jr., United States Army cavalry officer († 1894)
- 1839 » Nelson A. Miles, American general († 1925)
- 1846 » Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist (b. 1799)
- 1857 » Douglas William Jerrold, English journalist and playwright (b. 1803)
- 1874 » Cochise, American tribal chief (b. 1805)
- 1876 » George Sand, French author and playwright (b. 1804)
- 1885 » Ignace Bourget, Canadian bishop (b. 1799)
- 1889 » Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (b. 1844)
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