Milton Benjamin FRANK

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11 February 1862 , Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Died

12 December 1929 , Pensacola, Florida, USA

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Rosa Pauline Flores Frank (1877 - 1954)

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Pauline Ruth Frank (1900 - 1918)*
Hilda May Frank (1904 - 1918)*
Anna Isabel Frank (1907 - 1912)*
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Birth — 1862
11 February 1862
Baltimore, Maryland, 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

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 Pensacola, Escambia, Florida

Name: Melton Frank
Titles and Terms:
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: ED 28 Precinct 15 Pensacola city, Escambia, Florida, United States
Birth Date: Mar 1862
BirthPlace: Maryland
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Father's BirthPlace: Virginia
Mother's BirthPlace: Virginia
Race: White
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Years Married: 7
Marriage Year (Estimated): 1893
Mother of how many children:
Number of Living Children:
Immigration Year:
PAge: 20
Sheet Letter: A
Family Number: 422
Reference ID: 13
GS Film Number: 1240169
Digital Folder Number: 004120040
Image Number: 00144
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Melton Frank M 38 Maryland
Wife Pauline Frank F 24 Florida
Daughter Mary A Frank F 4 Florida
Son Edmund A Frank M 2 Florida
Daughter Pauline R Frank F 0 Florida

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1900 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
Exploring the U.S. Census: Your Guide to America’s Data

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 - June 28 - U.S. begins construction of Panama Canal.

1906 - August 22 – The first Victor Victrola, a phonographic record player, was manufactured, revolutionizing the way people listened to music at home.

In 1906, Reginald Fessenden made the first AM radio broadcast on December 24th. This event marked a significant advancement in radio technology, paving the way for the modern broadcasting industry.

1907-1908 - The electric washing machine is invented (Alva J. Fisher, United States)

1908 - First Model-T car is produced by Henry Ford (United States)

1909 - William Howard Taft becomes President of the United States

1910 Pensacola, Escambia, Florida

Name: Milton B Frank
Event Place: Pensacola Ward 1, Escamlia, Florida
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Self
Immigration Year:
BirthPlace: Maryland
Father's BirthPlace: Virginia
Mother's BirthPlace: Virginia
Household ID: 434
PAge: 20
Household Gender Age Birthplace
SELF Milton B Frank M 48y Maryland
WIFE Pauline Frank F 33y Florida
DAU Mary A Frank F 13y Florida
SON Edwin A Frank M 12y Florida
DAU Pauline R Frank F 16y Florida
SON Milton B Frank M 7y Florida
DAU Hilda M Frank F 5y Florida
DAU Nelly M Frank F 3y Florida
DAU Anna B Frank F 2y Florida
Louis Belcer M 28y Alabama

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1910 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
Exploring the U.S. Census: Your Guide to America’s Data

1912 - April 15 - Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic

1913 - The assembly line is invented (Henry Ford, United States)

The bra is invented (Mary Phelps Jacob, United States)

1913 - Woodrow Wilson becomes President of the United States

1913 - October 31 – The Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across the United States, is dedicated

1915 - January 25 - First United States coast-to-coast long-distance telephone call

1917 - March 2 – The enactment of the Jones Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.

1917 - April 6 – WWI: The United States declares war on Germany

1918 - March 19 – The United States Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time

1919 - June 4 – Women's rights: The United States Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification

1920 Escambia County, Florida

Name: Milton Frank
Event Type:
Event Year: 1920
Event Place: , Escambia, Florida
Gender: Male
Age: 57
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
BirthPlace: Maryland
Birth Year (Estimated): 1863
Relationship to Head of Household: Self
Father's BirthPlace:
Mother's BirthPlace:
Household ID: 36
Sheet Number: 2
GS Film Number: 1820220
Digital Folder Number: 4295788
Image Number: 00335
Household Gender Age Birthplace
SELF Milton Frank M 57y Maryland
WIFE Pauline Frank F 42y Florida
DAU Nellie Frank F 13y Florida
SON Edwin Frank M 20y Florida
SON Milton B Frank M 17y Florida
DAU Mary Hammer F 22y Florida
Juliet Hammer F 5y Florida
Joe Hammer M 1y Florida

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1920 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
Exploring the U.S. Census: Your Guide to America’s Data

1920 - January 17 - Prohibition goes into effect on January 17, 1920, under the provisions of the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution

1921 - Warren G. Harding becomes President of the United States

1921 - Charles Strite of Minnesota patents the pop-up toaster.

1923 to 1927 - Television is invented (Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (Russia), Philo Taylor Farnsworth (United States))

1923 - Calvin Coolidge becomes President of the United States

1927 - The aerosol can is invented (Erik Rotheim, Norway)

1927 - April 7 – Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Herbert Hoover (then the Secretary of Commerce), which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television

1928 - Sliced bread (bread slicing machine) is invented by Otto Frederick Rohwedder (United States)

Death

Name: Milton B. Frank
Titles and Terms:
Name Prefix:
Event Date: 12 Dec 1929
Event Place: Pensacola, Escambia Co., Florida
Gender: Male
Race (Original): White
Race: White
Age (Original): 67y
Birth Year (Estimated):
Birth Date: 11 Feb 1862
BirthPlace: Baltimore, Md.
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Pauline Frank
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Father's Name: John Frank
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Father's BirthPlace: Va.
Mother's Name: Mary Hall
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Mother's BirthPlace: Va.
Occupation: Police Judge
Address: 418 S. E. St.
Residence Place: Pensacola, Escambia Co., Florida
Cemetery: St. Michael'S
Burial Place: Florida
Burial Date: 14 Dec 1929
Funeral Home:
Informant's Name:
Additional Relatives: X
GS Film Number: 2135347
Reference ID: Vol. 443, #18526

'Florida, Deaths, 1877-1939,' index, FamilySearch

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