Otis SHURTLEFF

(b. 31 July 1806 , Compton, Lower Canada d. 23 March 1872 , Compton, Québec, Canada )

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Otis SHURTLEFF was born 31 July 1806 in Compton, Lower Canada

Otis SHURTLEFF was the child of Joel SHURTLEFF and Eunice SCOTT and the grandchild of: (paternal) Benoni SHURTLEFF and Submit PIKE

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Otis married Phebe Eliza Peabody PENNOYER 27 January 1835 in Hatley, Québec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Phebe Eliza Peabody PENNOYER was born 1 August 1815 in Compton, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas-de-Compton). Phebe Eliza Peabody died 25 April 1899 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA (East, North, South) (Allston) (Readville) (Roslindale). Phebe Eliza Peabody was the child of Jesse PENNOYER and Martha FERGUSON.

Otis SHURTLEFF died 23 March 1872 in Compton, Québec, Canada .
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

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Otis SHURTLEFF married

Phebe Eliza Peabody PENNOYER-- Date: 27 January 1835 Place: Hatley, Québec, Canada
Phebe Eliza Peabody PENNOYER was the child of Jesse PENNOYER and Martha FERGUSON

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Children of Otis SHURTLEFF and Phebe Eliza Peabody PENNOYER:

Henry Chamberlin SHURTLEFF (b.25 September 1828, Rupert, Vermont, USA d. 8 February 1895, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA)
m. Mary Augusta SANGER

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1806 Birth
31 July 1806
Compton, Lower Canada

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1818 - Canada's border is defined as the 49th Parallel from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

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

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

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1828 Birth of Child
Henry Chamberlin SHURTLEFF was born 25 September 1828, Rupert, Vermont, USA (East, North, West)

Otis was 22 years old.

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

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1835 Marriage / Partner
Otis SHURTLEFF and Phebe Eliza Peabody PENNOYER 27 January 1835, Hatley, Québec, Canada

He was 28 years old.

1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1837 - June 20 - Victoria becomes Queen of England

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States

1841 - February 11 – Act of Union - The two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada

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)

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1857 - Ottawa chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the united colony of Canada.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1867 - Canada becomes a sovereign nation by an act of the British Parliament (the British North America Act). Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick are united as the Dominion of Canada.