Amanda B COX

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6 August 1840 , Parkman, Maine, USA

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5 January 1904 , Farmington, Maine, USA

Cause of Death: died in fire

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Ezra COX Mary R FISHER

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Born: 6 August 1840 in Parkman, Maine, USA

Father: Ezra COX

Mother: Mary R FISHER

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Amanda B married Hilliard Page DAMON 11 March 1874 in St Albans, Maine, USA . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
They divorced. Hilliard Page DAMON was born 25 March 1854 in Augusta, Maine, USA. Hilliard Page died abt. 1938 in California, USA. Hilliard Page was the child of Edwin DAMON and Sarah LOVEJOY.

Amanda B COX died 5 January 1904 in Farmington, Maine, USA.

NOTE: Jessie Cobb stayed at her house the night before she was murdered

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Hilliard Page DAMON
Marriage date: 11 March 1874
Marriage place: St Albans, Maine, USA
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Hilliard Page DAMON was the child of Edwin DAMON and Sarah LOVEJOY

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Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907

groom's name: Hilliard P. Damon

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bride's name: Amanda B. Cox

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marriage date: 11 Mar 1874

marriage place: St Albans, Somerset, Maine

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indexing project (batch) number: I00654-2

system origin: Maine-EASy

source film number: 12062

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Libelant: Amanda B. Damon

Libelee: Hilliard P. Damon

Date of Divorce: 1891

County Where Divorced: Androscoggin

Notes: Divorce case heard Apr. term, 1891.

Source: Maine Supreme Judicial Court Records (Androscoggin Co.), 25-399 (docket no. 248)

Source citation: "Maine Divorces, 1799-1903," database, Maine Genealogy (www.mainegenealogy.net : accessed 6 September 2012), entry for Amanda B. Damon & Hilliard P. Damon, 1891, citing Maine Divorce Index, Maine State Archives.

Children of Hilliard Page DAMON and Amanda B COX

Charles Ethelbert DAMON

Born: 5 December 1879, St Albans, Maine, USA
Died: 2 June 1942, Santa Clara, California, USA

Married: Florence May HUBBACK 19 July 1909 Place: Santa Clara, California, USA

Married: Estella Lorena MCGUIRE 1920

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Birth — 1840
6 August 1840
Parkman, Maine, USA

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.

1874 Marriage / Partner
Amanda B COX and Hilliard Page DAMON 11 March 1874, St Albans, Maine, USA

She was 33 years old.

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)

1879 Birth of Child
Charles Ethelbert DAMON was born 5 December 1879, St Albans, Maine, USA

Amanda B was 39 years old.

1880 Palmyra, Somerset, Maine
Name: Amanda B. Daman
Age: 34
Birth Year: abt 1846
Birthplace: Maine
Home in 1880: Palmyra, Somerset, Maine
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Marital status: Married
Spouse's Name: Hilliard P. Daman
Father's Birthplace: Maine
Mother's Birthplace: Maine
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Occupation: Keeping House

Household Members:
Name Age
Hilliard P. Daman 27
Amanda B. Daman 34
Charles E. Daman 1

1880 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
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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

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.

1900 - Lewiston, Maine
name: Amanda Damon
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residence: Lewiston city, Androscoggin, Maine
birth date: Aug 1849
birthplace: Maine
relationship to head of household: Self
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mother's birthplace: Maine
race or color (expanded): White
head-of-household name: Amanda Damon
gender: Female
marital status: Married
years married: 22
estimated marriage year: 1878
mother how many children: 2
number living children: 1
immigration year:
enumeration district: 0014
page: 11
sheet letter: A
family number: 265
reference number: 36
film number: 1240587
image number: 00513
Household Gender Age
Amanda Damon F
child Chas E Damon M - b. Dec 1878, age 21, cutter? in shoe shop

living at 36 Middle Street in Lewiston, Maine - renter of house - head of household
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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)

1903 - The first engine-powered airplane is invented (Wilbur & Orville Wright, United States)

1904 Death
name: Amanda B Damon
event type: Death
event date: 05 Jan 1904
event place: Farmington,,Maine
gender: Female
age: 63
estimated birth year: 1841
father: Ezra Cox
mother: Mary R Fisher
spouse: Hilliard P Damon
spouse's father: Damon
spouse's mother:
film number: 9925
dgs number: 4544437
image number: 02335

'Maine, Vital Records, 1670-1907 ,' index and images, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ pal:/ MM9.1.1/ VZ3R-Z2V : accessed 05 Oct 2012), Hilliard P Damon in entry for Amanda B Damon, 1904.
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Death
DAMON Amanda B COX
Amanda B., Aug. 6, 1840 - March 5, 1904 “At rest, sister” [D/ C: Amanda B Damon d 5 Jan 1904
Farmington age 63,4,30, div from Hilliard R Damon. housekeeper, suffocation by fire. born Parkman to Ezra
Cox farmer b Sumner & Mary R Fisher b Livermore]

Row/ Lot 11
Stone 2
Cambridge Memorial Garden Cemetery
Cambridge, Somerset Co, Maine

Death
House in Which Farmington Normal Girls Boarded Badly Damaged.

A Domestic, Mrs. Amanda Damon, Loses Her Life by Suffocation.

Girls Fled from Burning Building in Night Clothes - No One Injured.

TWO DEATHS IN MAINE FIRES.
FARMINGTON, Me., Jan 5. - A defective chimney in a boarding house used as a dormitory by women students of the State Normal school caused a fire which cost a life and badly damaged the building early to-day.

Mrs. Amanda Damon, a native of Lewiston, was suffocated.

The other occupants fled from the building, scantily clad and were not injured.

Mrs. Damon was employed as a domestic. The damage to the building is placed at $3000.

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FARMINGTON, Me., Jan. 5 (Special).– Fire broke out at about 2.30 A. M. today in the Cameron House on South street. The inmates were aroused by a dense smoke which penetrated to every corner of the house. It was soon discovered that the house was on fire, the rear being a mass of flames. The fire caught ...Read full story