Samantha Jane POWER

Born

7 January 1855 , Apple River, Illinois, USA

Died

26 December 1888 , Bordac, Nebraska, USA

Samantha Jane married Benjamin Franklin BOURRETTE 6 June 1876 in Shullsburg, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Benjamin Franklin BOURRETTE was born 26 December 1858 in Mifflin, Wisconsin, USA. Benjamin Franklin died 18 December 1920 in Livingston, Wisconsin, USA.

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Spouses, Marriages & Children of Samantha Jane POWER

Samantha Jane POWER married

Benjamin Franklin BOURRETTE
Marriage date: 6 June 1876
Marriage place: Shullsburg, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA

Marriage notes:

History of Grant County, 1881 by C.W. Butterfield; page 1002- Biographical Sketch of Benjamin Bourret of Town of Clifton, Wisconsin

Children of Benjamin Franklin BOURRETTE and Samantha Jane POWER

Eugene "Gene" BOURRETTE

Born: 2 July 1880, Livingston, Grant, Wisconsin, USA
Died: 26 April 1950, Platteville, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA

Married: Leone Orrel FRY 19 October 1904

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Birth — 1855
7 January 1855
Apple River, Illinois, USA

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 Marriage / Partner
Samantha Jane POWER and Benjamin Franklin BOURRETTE 6 June 1876, Shullsburg, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA

She was 21 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)

1880 Birth of Child
Eugene "Gene" BOURRETTE was born 2 July 1880, Livingston, Grant, Wisconsin, USA

Samantha Jane was 25 years old.

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