Olson's Tree » Stephen Bleecker LUCE (1827-1917)
Personal data Stephen Bleecker LUCE
Source 1- He was born on March 25, 1827 in Albany, Albany, New York, USA.
- He died on July 28, 1917 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA, he was 90 years old.
- A child of Vinal LUCE and Charlotte BLEECKER
Household of Stephen Bleecker LUCE
He is married to Elizabeth "Eliza" Henley.
They got married in the year 1854, he was 26 years old.
Child(ren):
- John Dandridge Henley Luce 1855-1921
- Caroline Luce 1857-1933
- Charlotte Bleecker LUCE 1859-1946
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Birthday March 25, 1827
- The temperature on March 25, 1827 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: betrokken winderig regen. 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 1827: Source: Wikipedia
- February 28 » The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
- March 7 » Shrigley abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
- March 15 » University of Toronto is founded.
- April 7 » John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
- August 22 » José de la Mar becomes President of Peru.
- October 20 » In the Battle of Navarino, a combined Turkish and Egyptian fleet is defeated by British, French and Russian naval forces in the last significant battle fought with wooden sailing ships.
Day of death July 28, 1917
- The temperature on July 28, 1917 was between 10.9 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
- February 23 » First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution (March 8 in the Gregorian calendar).
- March 1 » The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text.
- May 21 » The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
- November 2 » The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
- November 25 » World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1,200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
- December 6 » World War I: USSJacob Jones is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine SMU-53.
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- 1824 » Clinton L. Merriam, American banker and politician († 1900)
- 1840 » Myles Keogh, Irish-American colonel († 1876)
- 1863 » Simon Flexner, American physician and academic († 1946)
- 1867 » Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor, designed Mount Rushmore († 1941)
- 1930 » Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist and optician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
- 1930 » John DeWitt, American hammer thrower (b. 1881)
- 1933 » Nishinoumi Kajirō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, 30th yokozuna (b. 1890)
- 1934 » Louis Tancred, South African cricketer and pilot (b. 1876)
- 1934 » Marie Dressler, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1868)
- 1935 » Meletius IV of Constantinople (b. 1871)
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Charles Olson, "Olson's Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/olsons-tree/P8178.php : accessed January 1, 2026), "Stephen Bleecker LUCE (1827-1917)".