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Recorded occupation: Farmer

The farmer, cultivateur, or cultivator, was a person who cultivated and exploited the land in order to get a crop.

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Source: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

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NewsFrom the 1840s through the 1880s, thousands trekked westward, carrying only a few belonging and supplies for the journey, and settling on the western frontier, forever changing the American West.
Invention 1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
News1863 - November 19 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
News1870 - June 26 - Christmas becomes a Federal holiday in the United States. It was still illegal in some states.
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Name: Joseph T. Sylvia
Gender: Male
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Death Date: 23 May 1886
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Place: Nantucket, Massachusetts
Age: 73
Birth Date: 1813
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Place: Fayall, W....
Occupation: Farmer
Race: white
Marital Status: Married
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B06799-7
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
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Film Number: 960232
Reference ID: v 374 p 242

'Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910,' database, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ ark:/ 61903/ 1:1:FC9M-S47 : 10 December 2014), Joseph T. Sylvia, 23 May 1886; citing Nantucket, Massachusetts, reference v 374 p 242; FHL microfilm 960,232.'

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Did You Know?According to the Wisconsin Historical Society, Wisconsin means 'river running through a red place' (the red place referring to the red sandstone bluffs of the Wisconsin Dells); they also say the name 'is the English spelling of a French version of a Miami Indian name' for the Wisconsin river (which runs 430 miles through the center of Wisconsin). (statesymbolsusa.org)

May 29, 1848 - Wisconsin becomes 25th U.S. state. The state is smaller than the territory and the leftover area continued to be called the Territory of Wisconsin until March 3, 1849. (www.50states.com)

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