Meyer Genealogy Tree » John L. Wray (1831-1902)
Personal data John L. Wray
Source 1Sources 2, 3, 4, 5, 6- Alternative name: John L. Wray
- He was born on February 10, 1831 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA.Sources 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- Resident:
- in the year 1880: Farmington, Clarion, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten.Source 4
- in the year 1900: Farmington, Clarion, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten.Source 5
- in the year 1870: Farmington, Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States.Source 6
- He died on May 25, 1902 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA, he was 71 years old.Sources 2, 3
- He is buried in Tylersburg, Clarion County, Pennsylvania, USA.Sources 2, 3
- A child of William Wray and Ellen Boyd
Household of John L. Wray
(1) He is married to Nancy Susan Hays.
They got married in the year 1852 at Pennsylvania, USA, he was 20 years old.
They got married in the year 1852, he was 20 years old.Child(ren):
- Jonathan Wray 1856-1862
- William Alexander Wray 1856-1930
- Mary Ellen Wray 1860-1930
(2) He is married to Caroline E. Sloan.
They got married in the year 1864, he was 32 years old.Source 5
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Sources
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- Web: Pennsylvania, Find A Grave Index, 1681-2011, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
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- 1880 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Year: 1880; Census Place: Farmington, Clarion, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1117; Family History Film: 1255117; Page: 140A; Enumeration District: 069; Image: 0285 / Ancestry.com
- 1900 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1900; Census Place: Farmington, Clarion, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1395; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 0011; FHL microfilm: 1241395 / Ancestry.com
- 1870 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1870; Census Place: Farmington, Clarion, Pennsylvania; Roll: M593_1326; Page: 431B; Image: 184; Family History Library Film: 552825 / Ancestry.com
Historical events
Birthday February 10, 1831
- The temperature on February 10, 1831 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt. 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 1831: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
- April 12 » Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England, cause it to collapse.
- July 4 » Samuel Francis Smith writes "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" for the Boston, Massachusetts July 4 festivities.
- August 21 » Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, which will claim the lives of 55 to 65 whites and about twice that number of blacks.
- September 1 » The high honor of Order of St. Gregory the Great is established by Pope Gregory XVI of the Vatican State to recognize high support for the Vatican or for the Pope, by a man or a woman, and not necessarily a Roman Catholic.
- September 8 » November uprising: The Battle of Warsaw effectively ends the Polish insurrection.
- October 30 » Nat Turner is arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.
Day of death May 25, 1902
- The temperature on May 25, 1902 was between 6.3 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 16.0 hours of sunshine (99%). 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1902: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
- February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
- April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
- May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
- August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
- November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
- December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
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- 1843 » Adelina Patti, Italian-French opera singer († 1919)
- 1846 » Ira Remsen, American chemist and academic († 1927)
- 1846 » Lord Charles Beresford, Irish admiral and politician († 1919)
- 1895 » Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman sociologist, historian, and jurist (b. 1822)
- 1899 » Rosa Bonheur, French painter and sculptor (b. 1822)
- 1912 » Austin Lane Crothers, American educator and politician, 46th Governor of Maryland (b. 1860)
- 1917 » Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet and critic (b. 1891)
- 1919 » Eliza Pollock, American archer (b. 1840)
- 1919 » Madam C. J. Walker, American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company (b. 1867)
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