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Personal data Benjamin Smith Rotch 

Source 1
  • He was born on March 4, 1817 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.Source 1
  • He died on August 19, 1882 in Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States of America, he was 65 years old.Source 1
  • He is buried in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States of America.Source 1

Household of Benjamin Smith Rotch

He has/had a relationship with Annie Bigelow Lawrence.


Child(ren):

  1. Arthur Rotch  1850-1894
  2. Abbott Lawrence Rotch  1861-1912 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Benjamin Smith Rotch

Benjamin Smith Rotch
1817-1882


Annie Bigelow Lawrence
1820-1893

Arthur Rotch
1850-1894
Abbott Lawrence Rotch
1861-1912

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  1. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com

Historical events

Birthday March 4, 1817

  • The temperature on March 4, 1817 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: bui hagel winderig weerlicht. Source: KNMI
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    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 1817: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 19 » An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
    • February 8 » Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
    • April 15 » Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
    • May 15 » Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
    • November 3 » The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal.
    • December 10 » Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.

Day of death August 19, 1882

  • The temperature on August 19, 1882 was about 15.9 °C. There was 14 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1882: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • March 6 » The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.
    • March 29 » The Knights of Columbus is established.
    • April 25 » French and Vietnamese troops clashed in Tonkin, when Commandant Henri Rivière seized the citadel of Hanoi with a small force of marine infantry.
    • June 28 » The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
    • September 30 » Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation.
    • December 6 » Transit of Venus, second and last of the 19th century.


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