Edgar W MOSHER

Born

13 May 1834 , Monroe, New York, USA

Died

26 March 1903 , McLouth, Kansas, USA

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Father: Ira S MOSHERMother: Louisa PEASE View parent relationships

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Born: 13 May 1834 in Monroe, New York, USA

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Ira S MOSHER

Mother

Louisa PEASE

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Benjamin MOSHER Abigail? MOSHER?

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Edgar W was a soldier in the U.S. Civil War.
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Edgar W married Elizabeth S PEEBLER 23 September 1886 in Jefferson, Kansas, USA . Elizabeth S PEEBLER was born March 1840 in Jefferson, Iowa Territory. Elizabeth S died 5 March 1912 in Meriden, Jefferson, Kansas, USA.

Edgar W MOSHER died 26 March 1903 in McLouth, Kansas, USA.

m. Elizabeth S. Peebler, 23 September 1886, Meriden, Kansas

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Spouses, Marriages & Children of Edgar W MOSHER

Edgar W MOSHER married

Elizabeth S PEEBLER
Marriage date: 23 September 1886
Marriage place: Jefferson, Kansas, USA

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Birth — 1834
13 May 1834
Monroe, New York, USA

1837 - Martin Van Buren becomes President of the United States

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States

From 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.

1841 - William Henry Harrison becomes President of the United States

1841 - John Tyler becomes President of the United States

1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1845 - James Knox Polk becomes President of the United States

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1849 - Zachary Taylor becomes President of the United States

1850 - Millard Fillmore becomes President of the United States

1853 - Franklin Pierce becomes President of the United States

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1857 - James Buchanan becomes President of the United States

1857 - March 6 – Dred Scott v. Sandford: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Blacks are not citizens and slaves can not sue for freedom, driving the country further towards the American Civil War.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1861 - February 8 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America are formed, comprising the first six break-away states.

1861 - Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the United States

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 Marriage / Partner
Edgar W MOSHER and Elizabeth S PEEBLER 23 September 1886, Jefferson, Kansas, USA

He was 52 years old.

1886 - October 28 - Statue of Liberty is Unveiled

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1889 - Benjamin Harrison becomes President of the United States

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1893 - Grover Cleveland becomes President of the United States

1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)

1897 - William McKinley becomes President of the United States

1898 - April 25 – Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain

1898 - December 10 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Spanish-American War.

1901 - King Camp Gillette and William Emery Nickerson invented the world's first disposable razor blade in 1901. (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)

1901 - William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition in the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, six months into his second term. He was shaking hands with the public when an anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, shot him twice in the abdomen. Theodore Roosevelt becomes President of the United States.

1902 - July 17 - Willis Haviland Carrier designed the first modern air-conditioning system. (Buffalo, New York, USA)

Obituary

Edgar W. Mosher was born in Monroe county, N.Y., and while a child moved with his parents to Illinois settling on a farm in La Salle county.

He was a veteran volunteer in the War of the Rebellion, serving in Co. H., 104th Regt. Ills, Vol. Inf., from Aug. 7th, 1862 to the 6th day of June, 1865, receiving an honorable discharge from the service. He came to Kansas about the year 1878, and settled at Meriden in Jefferson county, and engaged in the mercantile business. In 1886 he was married to Miss Elizabeth S. Peebler, of Meriden, who now survives him. His last illness, extending through a period of about seven weeks in which he was a great sufferer, was bourn with wonderful patience and Christian fortitude. In early life he was converted and joined the M.E. church in Illinois, but in moving around lost his membership, but never lost his faith in Christian principles, and long before the final summons came, he repeatedly expressed his readiness and willingness to go and be at rest

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