Watson-Gladstone Family Tree » George Nelson Ford (1828-1896)
Personal data George Nelson Ford
Source 1Sources 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9- He was born on February 22, 1828 in Danbury, New Hampshire.Sources 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Attention: Age at marriage (June 14, 1838) below 16 years (10). - Resident:
- on July 1, 1863: New Hampshire, United States.Source 6
- in the year 1850: Danbury, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA.Source 7
- in the year 1870: Danbury, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States.Source 9
- in the year 1860: Danbury, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA.Source 4
- in the year 1880: Danbury, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA.Source 2
- He died on June 9, 1896 in Danbury, New Hampshire, he was 68 years old.Sources 3, 5, 8
- He is buried in Grafton Center, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA.Sources 3, 8
- A child of Archibald Ford and Polly Searle
Household of George Nelson Ford
He is married to Amanda Melvina Davis.
They got married on June 14, 1838 at Danbury, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA, he was 10 years old.
They got married June 1902 at Grafton, New Hamphire, he was 74 years old.Child(ren):
- Emma Bell Ford 1861-1934
- Tamer Ford 1865-1954
- Etta Ford 1867-????
- Scott Nelson Ford 1869-1938
- Rosa Ford 1870-1963
- Mollie Searle Ford 1874-1943
- Flora May Ford 1875-1917
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Sources
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- 1880 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Year: 1880; Census Place: Danbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire; Roll: 766; Family History Film: 1254766; Page: 246B; Enumeration District: 175; Image: 0322 / Ancestry.com
- New Hampshire, Death and Burial Records Index, 1654-1949, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- 1860 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1860; Census Place: Danbury, Grafton, New Hampshire; Roll: M653_670; Page: 193; Image: 198; Family History Library Film: 803670 / Ancestry.com
- New Hampshire, Death and Disinterment Records, 1754-1947, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865, Ancestry.com, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865); Record Group: 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau / Ancestry.com
- 1850 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1850; Census Place: Danbury, Grafton, New Hampshire; Roll: M432_430; Page: 191B; Image: 383 / Ancestry.com
- U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- 1870 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1870; Census Place: Danbury, Grafton, New Hampshire; Roll: M593_840; Page: 344B; Image: 257; Family History Library Film: 552339 / Ancestry.com
Historical events
Birthday February 22, 1828
- The temperature on February 22, 1828 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: half bewolkt. 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 1828: Source: Wikipedia
- February 21 » Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah.
- April 14 » Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
- April 20 » René Caillié becomes the second non-Muslim to enter (and the first to return from) Timbuktu, following Major Gordon Laing.
- May 19 » U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.
- August 27 » Brazil and Argentina recognize the sovereignty of Uruguay in the Treaty of Montevideo
- November 5 » Greek War of Independence: The French Morea expedition to recapture Morea (now the Peloponnese) ends when the last Ottoman forces depart the peninsula.
Day of marriage June 14, 1838
- The temperature on June 14, 1838 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt winderig. 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 1838: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
- January 6 » Alfred Vail and colleagues demonstrate a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
- January 26 » Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States.
- February 17 » Weenen massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal are killed by Zulus.
- April 30 » Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.
- July 4 » The Iowa Territory is organized.
- November 3 » The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
Day of death June 9, 1896
- The temperature on June 9, 1896 was about 22.6 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. 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 May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1896: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
- January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
- April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
- May 27 » The F4-strength St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10-million in damage.
- June 4 » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
- December 30 » Canadian ice hockey player Ernie McLea scores the first hat-trick in Stanley Cup play, and the Cup-winning goal as the Montreal Victorias defeat the Winnipeg Victorias 6–5.
- December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.
Same birth/death day
- 1817 » Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician and academic († 1880)
- 1819 » James Russell Lowell, American poet and critic († 1891)
- 1824 » Pierre Janssen, French astronomer and mathematician († 1907)
- 1825 » Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, French-American archbishop († 1898)
- 1836 » Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya, Indian scholar and academic († 1906)
- 1840 » August Bebel, German theorist and politician († 1913)
- 1870 » Charles Dickens, English novelist and critic (b. 1812)
- 1875 » Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist and conchologist (b. 1795)
- 1889 » Mike Burke, American baseball player (b. 1854)
- 1892 » William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English captain and explorer (b. 1863)
- 1901 » Adolf Bötticher, German historian and author (b. 1842)
- 1923 » Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (b. 1846)
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