Time Line[]
Date | James S. Morrow | Ellen Stackpole | Historical Events |
1845 | Start of Irish Potatoe Famine; Iowa Statehood | ||
1846 | Born Waterbury, Washington Co, VT | Start of Mexican American War | |
1847 | born at sea, or Ireland | ||
1848 | End of Mexican American War; Beginning of California Gold Rush | ||
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1851 | End of irish Potatoe Famine | ||
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1861 | Start of Us Civil War | ||
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1865 | End of US Civil War | ||
1866 | Marriage of James and Ellen | ||
1867 | Birth of first child, Margaret Mariah Morrow (1867-1930) | ||
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1869 | Last spike driven in the Transcontinental Railroad, Promontory, Utah, May 10, 1869, as the Union Pacific tracks joined those of the Central Pacific Railroad | ||
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1873 | Birth of Thomas Martin Morrow (1873-1917) in Vermont | Panic of 1873 | |
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1877 | March 10, 1876 birth of the telephone | ||
1878 | Birth of James Albert Morrow (1878-1938) in Michigan | ||
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1885 | Carl Benz sells first commercial automobile driven by an internal combustion engine. | ||
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1891 | Marriage of Margaret Mariah Morrow (1867-1930) in Iowa | ||
1892 | invention of the gasoline-powered tractor | ||
1893 | panic of 1893: 10% unemployment 1893-1898) | ||
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1898 | Spanish American War | ||
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1900 | |||
1901 | Death of Ellen in Clay County IA | ||
1902 | Death of James, while visiting Daughter Tressa in Cass Co MN | ||
1903 | Death of Tressa's husband Eugene Clark, in Cass Co, MN | Wright Brothers fly at Kitty Hawk | |
1904 | Tressa remarries | ||
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