Genealogy Thomas » William Hume (1801-1870)
Personal data William Hume
Sources 1, 2- He was born on July 26, 1801 in Charleston, South Carolina.Source 1
- He died on April 18, 1870 in Charleston, South Carolina, he was 68 years old.Source 1
- A child of John Hume and Mary Mazyck
Household of William Hume
(1) He is married to Eleanor Jane Lucas.
They got married on December 24, 1835 at Charleston, South Carolina, he was 34 years old.
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(2) He is married to Catharine Simons Lucas.
They got married on December 31, 1825, he was 24 years old.
Notes about William Hume
Dr. William Hume was educated at home by tutors on a rice plantation at Goose Creek, South Carolina on the Santee River. He graduated from Yale and took a medical degree in New York. He studied in Par is and London. While in England, Dr. Hume married Catherine Lucas and later her sister, Ellen Jane Lucas. Their father was Jonathan Lucas, inventor of the rice mill.
He was deligated to be the sole guardian of The Citadel during the Civil War . . .at the time Yankee troops arrived in Charleston. He was ordered to surrender to Federal Troops when they finally invaded the city on February 18, 1865. The Federals held the venerable old professor as a hostage in the Citadel until 2:00 AM for fear the Confederates would destroy the place with a hidden bomb.
RIN: MH:N662
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Historical events
Birthday July 26, 1801
- The temperature on July 26, 1801 was about 13.0 °C. There was 132 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: betrokken. 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 1801: Source: Wikipedia
- January 1 » Ceres, the largest and first known object in the Asteroid belt, is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.
- February 17 » An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr, Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
- March 21 » The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis near Alexandria in Egypt.
- March 28 » Treaty of Florence is signed, ending the war between the French Republic and the Kingdom of Naples.
- May 6 » Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun HMSSpeedy captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo.
- August 1 » First Barbary War: The American schooner USSEnterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.
Day of marriage December 31, 1825
- The temperature on December 31, 1825 was about 2.0 °C. There was 440 mm of rainWind direction mainly south. Weather type: betrokken sneeuw. Special wheather fenomena: . 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 1825: Source: Wikipedia
- January 27 » The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears".
- February 4 » The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
- August 6 » The Bolivian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.
- August 25 » Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil.
- November 26 » At Union College in Schenectady, New York, a group of college students form the Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity.
- December 26 » Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Czar Nicholas I but are suppressed in the Decembrist revolt in Saint Petersburg.
Day of death April 18, 1870
- The temperature on April 18, 1870 was about 16.4 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 42%. 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 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 1870: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
- February 23 » Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
- March 30 » Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.
- May 12 » The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
- September 2 » Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan: Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
- September 4 » Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
- September 19 » Franco-Prussian War: The siege of Paris begins. The city will hold out for over four months before surrendering.
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- 1802 » Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 42nd President of Mexico († 1855)
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- 1829 » Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate († 1912)
- 1832 » Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet, French painter (b. 1761)
- 1859 » Tatya Tope, Indian general (b. 1814)
- 1864 » Juris Alunāns, Latvian philologist and linguist (b. 1832)
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