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Personal data Benjamin Sumner Welles III 

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Household of Benjamin Sumner Welles III

(1) He is married to Harriet Appleton Post.

They got married on January 8, 1952 at NYC, NY, he was 59 years old.


(2) He is married to Esther Slater.

They got married on April 14, 1915 at Webster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, he was 22 years old.


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(3) He is married to Mathilde Scott Townsend.

They got married on June 27, 1925 at NY, he was 32 years old.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Benjamin Sumner Welles

Benjamin Sumner Welles
1823-1904
Katherine Elida Schermerhorn
1828-1858

Benjamin Sumner Welles
1892-1961

(1) 1952

Harriet Appleton Post
1894-1969

(2) 1915

Esther Slater
± 1893-1951

Arnold Nelson Welles
1918-2002
(3) 1925

Mathilde Scott Townsend
1884-1949


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    Birthday October 14, 1892

    • The temperature on October 14, 1892 was about 9.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1892: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
      • May 28 » In San Francisco, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
      • June 30 » The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
      • August 4 » The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She was tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.
      • September 28 » The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
      • October 12 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.
      • October 26 » Ida B. Wells publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.

    Day of marriage June 27, 1925

    • The temperature on June 27, 1925 was between 6.3 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1925: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 7.3 million citizens.
      • March 21 » The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
      • May 15 » Al-Insaniyyah, the first Arabic communist newspaper, is founded.
      • May 25 » Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching human evolution in Tennessee.
      • July 18 » Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.
      • July 21 » Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed 150mph (241km/h) on land. At Pendine Sands in Wales, he drives Sunbeam 350HP built by Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33mph (242km/h).
      • September 3 » USSShenandoah, the United States' first American-built rigid airship, was destroyed in a squall line over Noble County, Ohio. Fourteen of her 42-man crew perished, including her commander, Zachary Lansdowne.

    Day of death September 24, 1961

    • The temperature on September 24, 1961 was between 11.1 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1961: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
      • January 24 » Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.
      • May 19 » At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement.
      • May 31 » In Moscow City Court, the Rokotov–Faibishenko show trial begins, despite the Khrushchev Thaw to reverse Stalinist elements in Soviet society.
      • August 1 » U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
      • November 29 » Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission: Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
      • December 9 » Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
    

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