Timeline: John and Susan Howell's Family History Pages

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1819 - 1894

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1864

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1894

> 1819 - Birth: 10 Jun 1819

> 1839 - Married Desiah Mack: 18 Sep 1839

> 1840 - Child Charles Henry Davison b. 26 Jul 1840

> 1841 - Child Catherine Doran Davison b. 14 Nov 1841

> 1843 - Child Eliza Eleanor Davison b. 2 Aug 1843

> 1845 - Child Edward Doran Davison, Jr. b. 15 Apr 1845

> 1847 - Child Mary Desiah Davison b. 23 Dec 1847

> 1849 - Child Francis Doran Davison b. 24 Dec 1849

> 1850 - Child William Doran Davison b. 2 Mar 1850

> 1853 - Child Elizabeth DeWolf Davison b. 23 Oct 1853

> 1856 - Child Annie Davison b. 16 Dec 1856

> 1862 - Child Amelia Freeman Davison b. 17 Jan 1862

> 1887 - Married Martha Hopkins Campbell: 5 Jan 1887

> 1894 - Died: 21 Feb 1894

	Year	Event(s)
1	1825 -1829	John Quincy Adams, President; John C. Calhoun, V.P.
2	1827	The birth of photography.
3	1829	Welland Canal Opened. Links Lake Erie and Ontario for the first time.
4	1829-1837	Andrew Jackson, President; Martin Van Buren, V.P.
5	1831	Michael Faraday converts magnetism into electricity.
6	1832	Cholera Epidemic in Europe and America interupts transatlantic travel and emigration to the US and Canada. 10% of Canadian population dies.
7	1837-1841	Martin Van Buren, President; Richard Mentor Johnson, V.P.
8	1841-1845	John Tyler, President.
9	1844	Samuel Morse sends first "morse code" message.
10	1845 - 184	Irish potato famine - thousands die of starvation.
11	1845-1849	Freeney line cousin - James Knox Polk is President of the US; George M. Dallas, V.P.
12	1848	The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx.
13	1859	Darwin's Theory of Evolution
14	1860	The Unification of Italy. Scotland hosts the first Open Golf Championship.
15	1861	Joseph Lister changes surgery with antiseptics.
16	1861-1865	American Civil War. Abraham Lincoln, President; Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson, V.P.
17	1865	Slavery is abolished in Kentucky and other border states by ratification of the 13th Ammendment of the US Constitution.
18	1867	July 1st - Canada, Nova Scotia & New Brunswick join in one federal union.
19	1869-1877	Ulysses Simpson Grant, President; Schuyler Colfax and Henry Wilson, V.P.
20	1874	The impressionists. Paris.
21	1876	Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone. The Battle at the Little Bighorn. Custer's last stand.
22	1878	First telephone exchange operates in New Haven, CT.
23	1879	Herbert Von Siemens demonstrates first electric train.
24	1882	Edison's factory producing 100,000 light bulbs per year.
25	1885	Canadian Pacific Railway completed. Provides link from Atlantic to Pacific.
26	1892	First telephone call from New York to Chicago. Ellis Island Opens

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