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(b. November 1875,
Lewiston, Maine, USA
d. 4 May 1912,
Lewiston, Maine, USA
)
Age: 34
Cause of Death: pulmonary TB
America - Did you know? January 1, 1892 - Ellis Island becomes chief immigration station of the U.S.
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Lewiston, Maine, USA
Lewiston, Me. M.C.R.R. Station
Lewiston, Maine, USA
Lewiston, Me. Entrance Maine State Fair Grounds.
Lewiston, Maine, USA
Lewiston, Maine, USA
City Building and De Witt House, Lewiston, Maine
Lewiston, Maine, USA
Tacoma Inn, near Lewiston, Me.
Lewiston, Maine, USA
The Great Department Store
James J
MCKENNA
(b. November 1875,
Lewiston, Maine, USA
d. 4 May 1912,
Lewiston, Maine, USA
)
Age: 34
Cause of Death: pulmonary TB
Summary:
James J MCKENNA was born November 1875
in Lewiston, Maine, USA.
James J MCKENNA
was the child of
James J MCKENNA and
Annie SKERRY
James J MCKENNA died 4 May 1912 in Lewiston, Maine, USA.
Occupation: carpenter
Notes:
Never married
Details of the life of James appear below.
James J MCKENNA died 4 May 1912 in Lewiston, Maine, USA.
Occupation: carpenter
Notes:
Never married
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America - Did you know? January 1, 1892 - Ellis Island becomes chief immigration station of the U.S.www.infoplease.com
Lewiston, Maine, USA
Lewiston, Me. M.C.R.R. Station
Lewiston, Maine, USA
Lewiston, Me. Entrance Maine State Fair Grounds.
Lewiston, Maine, USA
Lewiston, Maine, USA
City Building and De Witt House, Lewiston, Maine
Lewiston, Maine, USA
Tacoma Inn, near Lewiston, Me.
Androscoggin's Secret
Based on the 1900 murder of Jessie Cobb in Lewiston, Maine.
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ISBN-10: 1469932067
ISBN-13: 978-1469932064
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Lewiston, Maine, USA
The Great Department Store
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Androscoggin's Secret - Based on the 1900 murder of Jessie Cobb in Lewiston, Maine
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Androscoggin's Secret - Based on the 1900 murder of Jessie Cobb in Lewiston, Maine
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Birth November 1875Lewiston, Maine, USA
1876 - May 10 - Centennial ExhibitiionMay 10, 1876: The Centennial Exhibition opened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at which Caroline...Read MORE...
1876 - June 25 – American Indian Wars – Battle of the Little Bighorn:300 men of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer are wiped ...Read MORE...
1879 - Cleveland became the world's first city to be lighted electrically in 1879 when Charles Brush successfully demonstrated arc lights on the streets.www.e-referencedesk.com/ resources/ state-history-timeline/ ohio.html
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1881 - The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.THE RED CROSS SOCIETY
At a meeting this evening, largely attended by prominent citizens and those...Read MORE...
1883 - November 18 – U.S. and Canadian railroads institute 5 standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.UNIFORM TIME
Exactly at noon on Sunday, as has been announced, the new system of uniform time...Read MORE...
1884 - May 1 – The eight-hour workday is first proclaimed by the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions in the United States. This date, called May Day or Labour Day, becomes a holiday recognized in almost every industrialized country.www.wikipedia.org - May 1, 1884
1884 - December 6 – The Washington Monument is completed in Washington, D.C., becoming the tallest structure in the world at this date.www.wikipedia.org - December 6, 1884
1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.The formal reception of Bartholdi's great statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World" took place at...Read MORE...
1886 - January 29 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile, the Benz Patent Motorwagen (built in 1885).www.wikipedia.org - January 29, 1886
1886 - History of a Pill Box - Found in the Drawer of a Lewiston Sewing Machine“Hello, what's this!” exclaimed a Lewiston sewing-machine agent, as he picked a pill-box out of the ...Read MORE...
1887 - February 2 – In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the first Groundhog Day is observed.www.wikipedia.org - February 2, 1887
1890 - December 29 - Wounded Knee Massacre occurred - 7th Cavalry killed more than 250 Lakota men, women and children; Sitting Bull killed at Little Eagle; Indian wars endedwww.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ sdtimeln.htm - December 29, 1890
1891 - Don't LookA Lewiston, Maine policeman has had two hotel keepers arrested on a charge of offering him $200 a...Read MORE...
1892 - NO MORE BARGE OFFICE. Immigrants Will Hereafter Land at Ellis Island.New York, Jan. 1. - Without any ceremony or formal opening the immigration officials of this city...Read MORE...
1892 - Justice?James Reiker, who hasn't got a red, has been in jail nearly four years in Lewiston, Maine, for a...Read MORE...
1893 - May 1 - World's Columbian ExpositionWorld's Columbian Exposition is held in Chicago, commemorating the 400th anniversary of European exploratory voyages to the western hemisphere. www.e-referencedesk.com/ ...Read MORE...
1894 - Pullman strikeThe Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States in the summer of 1894. It...Read MORE...
1896 - Gold discovered in the Yukon's Klondike 1896 - Bicycles and Business. Hard Times Attributed in Part to the Wheeling Craze.Now the bicycle is accused of responsibility for a lot of hard times in various lines of business....Read MORE...
1897 - September 1 – The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground metro in North America.in 1897, at 6 am, over 100 people crowded onto the first train to travel through a tunnel under...Read MORE...
1898 - U.S. battleship, Maine, blows up in Havana Harbor, Cuba, igniting the Spanish-American war.The World Almanac of the U.S.A, by Allan Carpenter and Carl Provorse, 1996 -
1898 - April 25 – Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain; the U.S. Congress announces that a state of war has existed since April 21 (later backdating this one more day to April 20)....On April 11, 1898, President William McKinley asked Congress for authorization to end the...Read MORE...
1898 - December 10 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Spanish-American War.On December 10, the Treaty of Paris officially ended the Spanish-American War. The once-proud...Read MORE...
1900 - Lewiston, Maine
name: James J Mckenna
titles & terms: Jr
residence: Lewiston city, Androscoggin, Maine
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name: James J Mckenna
titles & terms: Jr
residence: Lewiston city, Androscoggin, Maine
birth...Read MORE...
1900 - March 15 – The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.The Gold Standard Act a Law.
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1900 - June 1 – American temperance agitator Carrie Nation begins her crusade to demolish saloons.THE KIOWA SALOONS RAIDED.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, of this City, Invaded Six of Them last Thursday....Read MORE...
1900 - Wm. Reed's Tragic Death. A Horrible Fatality in a Lewiston Stable Friday Evening.A Surcharged Incandescent Electric Light Wire Pours Forth Its Fatal Voltage.
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1900 - STILL A MYSTERY. Jessie Cobb's Murderer and His Motive Are Not Yet Revealed. LEWISTON POLICE ON THE ALERT. Several of Dead Girls Friends In Sabbattus Interviewed. WHERE IS FRED BROOKS?The veil which covers the crime connected with the Jessie Cobb case, has not yet been raised. There ...Read MORE...
1901 - January 22 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom dies at age 81, after more than 63 years on the throne, and her son the Prince of Wales formally succeeds her as King Edward VII.www.wikipedia.org - January 22, 1901
1902 - They Held Hands. Rustic Couple From the Country Create a Whole Lot of Amusement on Lewiston Streets.They were from the country – that – no one who saw the rustic couple would question for a minute....Read MORE...
1902 - THE DOMESTIC PROBLEM - Both Sides of the Question Presented by One Who Has Been Mistress and Maid - The Golden Rule If Applied Would Solve the Problem(Writer for The Sun.)
“Wanted – A capable American house girl.” Such is the tenor of many “want” ...Read MORE...
1903 - THE ODLIN SLOT MACHINES - Taken from Him by the Deputy Sheriffs Yesterday to Be Destroyed Today.The ex-city marshal Odlin's got a bunch of nickel-in-the-slot machines at his home on Newman...Read MORE...
1903 - Sheriff Cummings has ordered the U-No beer joints with lunch rooms combined to sell nothing between the hours of twelve Saturday night and twelve Sunday night, save food, coffee or tea.The proprietors of these places are not allowed to sell a bottle of ginger ale or a glass of Moxie...Read MORE...
1903 - Marconi sends and receives the first wireless transatlantic communicationOne hundred years ago on Saturday, a young Italian inventor named Guglielmo Marconi stood on a...Read MORE...
1903 - June 16 - Ford Motor Company is incorporated in Detroit, MichiganJune 16, 1903
1903 - WONDERFUL ELECTRICITY. City Hall Has Been Thoroughly Wired and Everything is as Brilliant as Daylight.The work of wiring City Hall was completed last evening and the lights were turned on for the first ...Read MORE...
1903 - October - First World SeriesThe 1903 World Series was the first modern World Series to be played in Major League Baseball. It...Read MORE...
1903 - HILL TRAGEDY. The Son is Alive and Resting Comfortably - An Operation Will be Performed. THE OLD FATHER BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN INSANE.The Details of the Sad Affair Which Caused a Sensation Yesterday Morning.
A most shocking double ...Read MORE...
1903 - December 17 – Orville Wright flies an aircraft with a petrol engine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in the first documented, successful, controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight.THE MACHINE ACTUALLY FLIES
Successful Trial of Kitty Hawk, N.C., of Wright Brother's...Read MORE...
1904
James McKenna, Jr., was bound over to the Supreme Court under $200 for larceny of goods amounting...Read MORE...
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1904 - April 30 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri (closes December 1).Ice-cream cones were first served in 1904 at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition world's fair in St....Read MORE...
1904 - June 28 - U.S. begins construction of Panama CanalFebruary 23 – For $10 million, the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone...
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1904 - Passenger Train WreckedLewiston, Maine, Sept. 27. - Three are dead, nine others seriously injured and some twenty more...Read MORE...
1905 - A Lewiston man is breaking his frisky young colt by a novel method.He mounts his bicycle and leads his colt up and down the street as fast or as slow as he desires.
Lewiston Daily Sun - Lewiston, Maine - May 21, 1905
1908 - September 27 – Henry Ford produces his first Model T automobile.www.wikipedia.org - September 27, 1908
1909 - Prisoner Escaped.During the breakfast hour at the Lewiston police station, Monday, J. J. McKenney, jr., told Officer ...Read MORE...
1909 Intoxication Arrests / Prison Escape
James J. McKenna, Jr. was sentenced to 60 days in jail for second offence while Jerimiah Collins,...Read MORE...
James J. McKenna, Jr. was sentenced to 60 days in jail for second offence while Jerimiah Collins,...Read MORE...
1910
Indicted for larceny.
The Lewiston Daily Sun, January 21, 1910
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Indicted for larceny.
The Lewiston Daily Sun, January 21, 1910
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1911 - May 22 - The temperature at Lewiston ME soared to 101 degrees. It was the hottest temperature ever recorded in New England during the month of May.WeatherForYou.com -
1911 - Senator Frye Dies in Maine - Former President Pro Tem. of National Body Passes Away in Old HomeLewiston, Maine, Aug. 9 - United States Senator William Pierce Frye died at the home of his...Read MORE...
1912 Death
Name: James J McKenna
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Birth Date: abt 1878
Death Date: 4 May 1912
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Name: James J McKenna
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Birth Date: abt 1878
Death Date: 4 May 1912
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James is buried at: Mount Hope Cemetery
Lewiston, Maine, USA
last residence 387 Main St., Lewiston - living with his parents
Section Bext, Lot not listed (possibly lot 13?)
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