James B. CRAIN

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abt. 1861 , Michigan, USA

Died

22 March 1880 , Comstock, Michigan, USA

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Father: David Crain
Mother: Sarah I. Crain

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1863 - January 1 - President Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves.

1863 - October 3 – President Lincoln proclaims a national Thanksgiving day to be celebrated the final Thursday in November in the United States

1863 - November 19 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

April 14, 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln was mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth at in Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. He died the next day. Andrew Johnson becomes President of the United States.

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1869 - Ulysses S. Grant becomes President of the United States

1870 - June 26 - Christmas becomes a Federal holiday in the United States. It was still illegal in some states.

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President of the United States

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

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Name: James B. Crain
Gender: Male
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Death Date: 22 Mar 1880
Death Place: Comstock, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Age: 19
Birth Date: 1861
Birth Place: Michigan
Occupation: Farm Laborer
Race: W
Marital Status: Single
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Father's Name: David Crain
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Mother's Name: Sarah I. Crain
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B51859-8
System Origin: Michigan-EASy
GS Film Number: 984130
Reference ID: v 1 p 204

'Michigan Deaths and Burials, 1800-1995,' database, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ ark:/ 61903/ 1:1:FHVN-ZXM : 9 December 2014), James B. Crain, 22 Mar 1880; citing Comstock, Kalamazoo, Michigan, reference v 1 p 204; FHL microfilm 984,130.'

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