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Personal data Richard Henry Dana III 

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Household of Richard Henry Dana III

(1) He is married to Edith Wadsworth Longfellow.

They got married on January 10, 1878 at Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, he was 27 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Richard Henry Dana  1879-1933
  2. Frances Appleton Dana  1883-1933 
  3. Allston Dana  1884-1952
  4. Delia Farley Dana  1889-1989


(2) He is married to Helen Ford Mumford.

They got married in the year 1922, he was 70 years old.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Richard Henry Dana

Sarah Dana
1814-1907

Richard Henry Dana
1851-1931

(1) 1878
Allston Dana
1884-1952
(2) 1922

Helen Ford Mumford
± 1867-????


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    Historical events

    • The temperature on January 3, 1851 was about 6.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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 Netherlands , there was from November 1, 1849 to April 19, 1853 the cabinet Thorbecke I, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1851: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
      • January 28 » Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
      • March 11 » The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
      • August 12 » Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
      • October 18 » Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
      • October 24 » William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel orbiting Uranus.
      • December 8 » Conservative Santiago-based government troops defeat rebels at the Battle of Loncomilla, signaling the end of the 1851 Chilean Revolution.
    • The temperature on January 10, 1878 was about 1.3 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. 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 November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
      • January 4 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and designated the capital of Liberated Bulgaria.
      • March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
      • September 1 » Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
      • September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
      • October 22 » The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.
      • December 31 » Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.
    • The temperature on December 16, 1931 was between -0.5 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1931: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
      • January 7 » Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
      • March 3 » The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
      • March 26 » Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
      • April 14 » The Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the Second Spanish Republic.
      • June 23 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
      • August 24 » France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality pact.
    

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    • 1940 » Billy Hamilton, American baseball player and manager (b. 1866)
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