Wiggins-Mergenthaler Family Tree » David Floyd Griffith (1862-1921)
Personal data David Floyd Griffith
Source 1- He was born on February 2, 1862 in Clark Count, Illinois, Verenigde Staten.
- Resident:
- in the year 1880: Casey, Clark, Illinois, USA.Source 2
- in the year 1870: Orange, Clark, Illinois, USA.Source 3
- in the year 1910: Rock, Ellis, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten.Source 4
- He died on April 27, 1921 in Gage, Ellis, Oklahoma, USA, he was 59 years old.
- A child of James Nelson Griffith and Mary Ellen Chancellor
Household of David Floyd Griffith
(1) He is married to Roxie Ray.
They got married on July 4, 1890 at Clark, Illinois, United States, he was 28 years old.Source 5
Child(ren):
- Mary Jane Griffith 1891-1910
- Lula Myrtle Griffith ± 1893-1962
- Bruce Evert Griffith 1895-1961
(2) He is married to Lydia C Weir.
They got married on March 18, 1886 at Clark, Illinois, United States, he was 24 years old.
Child(ren):
- Caius Lyman Griffith 1889-1947
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Sources
- Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Tree
http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=104242613&pid=4145
/ Ancestry.com - 1880 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Year: 1880; Census Place: Casey, Clark, Illinois; Roll: 181; Page: 40D; Enumeration District: 033 / Ancestry.com
- 1870 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1870; Census Place: Orange, Clark, Illinois; Roll: M593_195; Page: 423A; Family History Library Film: 545694 / Ancestry.com
- 1910 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1910; Census Place: Rock, Ellis, Oklahoma; Roll: T624_1251; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 0155; FHL microfilm: 1375264 / Ancestry.com
- Illinois, Compiled Marriages, 1851-1900, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
Historical events
Birthday February 2, 1862
- The temperature on February 2, 1862 was about 8.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
- Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
- In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1862: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
- January 30 » The first American ironclad warship, the USSMonitor is launched.
- March 28 » American Civil War: In the Battle of Glorieta Pass, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of the New Mexico Territory. The battle began on March 26.
- April 29 » American Civil War: The Capture of New Orleans by Union forces under David Farragut.
- November 7 » American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside was assigned to command the Army of the Potomac in Antietam, Maryland. After Union General George B. McClellan refused to pursue Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia after their retreat from the Battle of Antietam.
- December 13 » American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats Union Major General Ambrose Burnside.
- December 31 » American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two.
Day of marriage March 18, 1886
- The temperature on March 18, 1886 was about -0.1 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
- In the year 1886: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
- March 29 » John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
- May 5 » The Bay View massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
- May 8 » Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
- June 26 » Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
- October 28 » President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
- November 27 » German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest.
Day of death April 27, 1921
- The temperature on April 27, 1921 was between 9.6 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
- February 22 » After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.
- March 20 » The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland.
- July 2 » World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.
- August 23 » British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber Estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
- October 8 » KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
- October 26 » The Chicago Theatre opens.
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- 1861 » Solomon R. Guggenheim, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum († 1949)
- 1862 » Émile Coste, French fencer († 1927)
- 1862 » Cornelius McKane, American physician, educator, and hospital founder († 1912)
- 1866 » Enrique Simonet, Spanish painter and academic († 1927)
- 1915 » Alexander Scriabin, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1872)
- 1915 » John Labatt, Canadian businessman (b. 1838)
- 1932 » Hart Crane, American poet (b. 1899)
- 1936 » Karl Pearson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1857)
- 1937 » Antonio Gramsci, Italian sociologist, linguist, and politician (b. 1891)
- 1938 » Edmund Husserl, Czech mathematician and philosopher (b. 1859)
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