Charles Douglass HORTON

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May 1861 , New York, USA

Died

December 1893 , Dutchess County, New York, USA

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Born: May 1861 in New York, USA

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Charles Douglass married Margaret "Maggie" WILSON 10 June 1885 in Beacon, New York, USA . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Margaret "Maggie" WILSON was born September 1866 in New York, USA.

Charles Douglass HORTON died December 1893 in Dutchess County, New York, USA.
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Charles Douglass HORTON married

Margaret "Maggie" WILSON
Marriage date: 10 June 1885
Marriage place: Beacon, New York, USA

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Lillian Frances HORTON

Born: 17 May 1892, Beacon, New York, USA
Died: 5 March 1929, Bayonne, New Jersey, USA

Married: Jesser Elmer LAMBERTSON 25 January 1918 Place: New Rochelle, New York, USA

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Birth — 1861
May 1861
New York, 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 Marriage / Partner
Charles Douglass HORTON and Margaret "Maggie" WILSON 10 June 1885, Beacon, New York, USA (Matteawan) (Fishkill Landing)

He was 24 years old.

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

1892 Birth of Child
Lillian Frances HORTON was born 17 May 1892, Beacon, New York, USA (Matteawan) (Fishkill Landing)

Charles Douglass was 31 years old.