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He had a relationship with Blanche Fowler Travers.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of William Leslie Edison

Samuel Ogden Edison
1804-1896
Nancy Matthews
1808-1871
Nicholas Stillwell
1822-1883
Margaret Crane
1833-1908

William Leslie Edison
1878-1937


Blanche Fowler Travers
1877-1946


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Birthday October 26, 1878

  • The temperature on October 26, 1878 was about 8.4 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 15 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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 9 » Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
    • June 10 » League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
    • July 13 » Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.
    • 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.
    • November 17 » First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante, who was armed with a dagger. The King survived with a slight wound in an arm. Prime Minister Benedetto Cairoli blocked the aggressor, receiving an injury in a leg.
    • December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.

Day of death August 10, 1937

  • The temperature on August 10, 1937 was between 10.4 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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.
    • January 15 » Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
    • February 11 » The Flint sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers trade union.
    • February 21 » The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
    • June 14 » U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
    • September 22 » Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken, ending the Battle of El Mazuco.
    • December 12 » Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USSPanay on the Yangtze river in China.


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