Abraham L. KESCEL

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10 January 1861 , New York, USA

Died

24 March 1888 , Salt Lake City, Utah Territory

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Born: 10 January 1861 in New York, USA

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Abraham L. KESCEL died 24 March 1888 in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory.
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Birth — 1861
10 January 1861
New York, USA

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)

1881 - The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.

1881 - March 4 - James A. Garfield becomes President of the United States

1881 - July 2 - James A. Garfield was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., at 9:30 am on Saturday, July 2, 1881. He died in Elberon, New Jersey, two months later on September 19, 1881. The shooting occurred less than four months into his term as president. Charles J. Guiteau was convicted of Garfield's murder and executed by hanging one year after the shooting. Chester Arthur becomes President of the United States.

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - Grover Cleveland becomes President of the United States

1886 - October 28 - Statue of Liberty is Unveiled

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Name: Abraham L. Kescel
Gender: Male
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Burial Place: Monroe, N.Y.
Death Date: 24 Mar 1888
Death Place: Salt Lake City, Utah
Age: 27
Birth Date: 1861
Birth Place: N.York
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B07503-1
System Origin: New York-EASy
GS Film number: 1671688
Reference ID: 172

'New York Deaths and Burials, 1795-1952,' database, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ ark:/ 61903/ 1:1:F69P-X3B : 29 December 2014), Abraham L. Kescel, 24 Mar 1888; citing Salt Lake City, Utah, reference 172; FHL microfilm 1,671,688.'

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