Moreland tree » Stephen A Compton (1774-1862)
Personal data Stephen A Compton
Sources 1, 2- He was born on August 29, 1774 in River, Saluda, South Carolina, United States.
- He died on July 14, 1862 in Sugar Creek Twp, Greene Co, Ohio, he was 87 years old.
- He is buried in Ceasars Creek Cemetery, Waynesville, Warren, Ohio, United States.
- A child of Samuel Compton and Elizabeth Lewis
Household of Stephen A Compton
He is married to Dinah Milhouse.
They got married
Child(ren):
- Sally (Sarah) Compton 1800-1888
- Amos Compton 1805-1835
- Amos Samuel (or Samuel?) Compton 1805-1835
- William Compton 1808-????
- Hannah Compton 1812-1896
- John Compton 1816-1843
Timeline Stephen A Compton
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Sources
- Torrey Web Site (FamilySearch), Robert Willis Torrey, Stephen Compton, May 31, 2018
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MyHeritage family tree Family site: Torrey Web Site (FamilySearch) Family tree: 330285621-1
- Saunders Web Site, Terry Saunders, Stephen Compton, May 31, 2018
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MyHeritage family tree Family site: Saunders Web Site Family tree: 133105562-1
Historical events
Birthday August 29, 1774
- The temperature on August 29, 1774 was about 15.0 °C. There was 66 mm of rainWind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken. Source: KNMI
- Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
- In the year 1774: Source: Wikipedia
- January 21 » Abdul Hamid I becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
- March 31 » American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
- June 2 » Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
- June 22 » The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
- July 21 » Russo-Turkish War (1768–74): Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca ending the war.
- October 21 » The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include the word "Liberty".
Day of death July 14, 1862
- The temperature on July 14, 1862 was about 16.9 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. 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 March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
- In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1862: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
- February 22 » Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
- April 16 » American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
- May 20 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, opening 84million acres of public land to settlers.
- July 1 » The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum.
- November 5 » American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.
- December 26 » Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USSRed Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.
Same birth/death day
- 1756 » Count Heinrich von Bellegarde, Austrian general and politician († 1845)
- 1756 » Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician and astronomer († 1830)
- 1773 » Aimé Bonpland, French botanist and explorer († 1858)
- 1777 » Hyacinth, Russian religious leader, founded Sinology († 1853)
- 1780 » Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter and illustrator († 1867)
- 1792 » Charles Grandison Finney, American minister and author († 1875)
- 1827 » Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist and engineer, reviver of wave theory of light, inventor of catadioptric lighthouse lens (b. 1788)
- 1834 » Edmond-Charles Genêt, French-American diplomat (b. 1763)
- 1850 » August Neander, German historian and theologian (b. 1789)
- 1856 » Edward Vernon Utterson, English lawyer and historian (b. 1775)
- 1876 » John Buckley, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1813)
- 1881 » Billy the Kid, American criminal (b. 1859)
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Christina Moreland, "Moreland tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/moreland-tree/I177.php : accessed January 24, 2026), "Stephen A Compton (1774-1862)".