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Personal data John Davison Rockefeller Sr 

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Household of John Davison Rockefeller Sr

He is married to Laura Celestia Spelman.

They got married on September 8, 1864 at Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA, he was 25 years old.


Child(ren):

  2. Alice Rockefeller  1869-1870
  3. Alta Rockefeller  1871-1962 
  4. Edith Rockefeller  1872-1932 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of John Davison Rockefeller

Godfrey Lewis Rockefeller
1783-1857
Lucy AVERY
1786-1867
Eliza Davison
1813-1889

John Davison Rockefeller
1839-1937

1864

Laura Celestia Spelman
1839-1915

Elizabeth A Rockefeller
1866-1906
Alice Rockefeller
1869-1870
Alta Rockefeller
1871-1962
Edith Rockefeller
1872-1932
John Davison Rockefeller
1874-1960

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    Birthday July 8, 1839

    • The temperature on July 8, 1839 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt regen onweer. 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 1839: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
      • January 19 » The British East India Company captures Aden.
      • June 3 » In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2million kilograms of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
      • July 3 » The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State University, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with three students.
      • September 5 » The United Kingdom declares war on the Qing dynasty of China.
      • September 9 » John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
      • November 25 » A cyclone slams into south-eastern India, with high winds and a 40-foot storm surge destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave swept inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths resulted from the disaster.

    Day of marriage September 8, 1864

    • The temperature on September 8, 1864 was about 16.7 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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 February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1864: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
      • April 10 » Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico.
      • June 12 » American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their position at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
      • June 27 » American Civil War: Confederate forces defeat Union forces during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during the Atlanta Campaign.
      • July 28 » American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church: Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.
      • August 18 » American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern: Union forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.
      • September 1 » American Civil War: The Confederate Army General John Bell Hood orders the evacuation of Atlanta, ending a four-month siege by General William Tecumseh Sherman.

    Day of death May 23, 1937

    • The temperature on May 23, 1937 was between 11.8 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1937: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
      • April 1 » Aden becomes a British crown colony.
      • April 12 » Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
      • May 26 » Walter Reuther and members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) clashed with Ford Motor Company security guards at the River Rouge Complex complex in Dearborn, Michigan, during the Battle of the Overpass.
      • July 9 » The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
      • August 1 » Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
      • September 5 » Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalists following a one-day siege.
    

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