Ruth Augusta TRASK

(b. 20 August 1824 , Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA d. 22 April 1886 , Westford, Massachusetts, USA )

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Ruth Augusta TRASK was born 20 August 1824 in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA

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Ruth Augusta married Mark Curtis BOYNTON 27 September 1845 in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA . The couple had (at least) 1 child. Mark Curtis BOYNTON was born abt. 1819 in New Hampton, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA. Mark Curtis died 18 January 1893 in Westford, Massachusetts, USA. Mark Curtis was the child of Mark Wentworth BOYNTON and Desire F BARRELL.

Ruth Augusta TRASK died 22 April 1886 in Westford, Massachusetts, USA.
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Ruth Augusta TRASK married

Mark Curtis BOYNTON-- Date: 27 September 1845 Place: Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Mark Curtis BOYNTON was the child of Mark Wentworth BOYNTON and Desire F BARRELL

Children of Mark Curtis BOYNTON and Ruth Augusta TRASK:

George Colburn BOYNTON (b.11 January 1848, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA d. 4 April 1935, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA)
m. Harriet A JONES 12 May 1866 in Cheshire, Massachusetts, USA

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1824 Birth
20 August 1824
Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1825 - John Quincy Adams becomes President of the United States

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1826 - Former U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both die on the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1827 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1829 - Andrew Jackson becomes President of the United States

1830 - The Indian Removal Act marks the beginning of the forced relocation of five tribes of native Americans, known as Trail of Tears

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 Marriage / Partner
Ruth Augusta TRASK and Mark Curtis BOYNTON 27 September 1845, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

She was 21 years old.

1845 - James Knox Polk becomes President of the United States

1848 Birth of Child
George Colburn BOYNTON was born 11 January 1848, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

Ruth Augusta was 23 years old.

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.

1866 Marriage of Child
George Colburn BOYNTON married 12 May 1866, Cheshire, Massachusetts, USA to Harriet A JONES

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 Death
22 April 1886
Westford, Massachusetts, USA

She died at the age of 61.

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