Henry S DEVOLL

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7 July 1839 , Westport, Massachusetts, USA

Died

30 January 1891 , Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA

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Born: 7 July 1839 in Westport, Massachusetts, USA

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Henry S married Mary Elizabeth HASKELL 13 October 1871 in Westport, Massachusetts, USA . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Mary Elizabeth HASKELL was born abt. 1851 in Westport, Massachusetts, USA . Mary Elizabeth died 13 September 1879 in Westport, Massachusetts, USA .

Henry S DEVOLL died 30 January 1891 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA .
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Henry S DEVOLL married

Mary Elizabeth HASKELL
Marriage date: 13 October 1871
Marriage place: Westport, Massachusetts, USA

Children of Henry S DEVOLL and Mary Elizabeth HASKELL

Mary Annie DEVOLL

Born: 13 September 1879, Westport, Massachusetts, USA
Died: abt. 1946, Westport, Massachusetts, USA

Married: Clarence Augustus LAWTON 25 August 1909 Place: Fall River, Massachusetts, USA

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Birth — 1839
7 July 1839
Westport, Massachusetts, 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 - James Knox Polk becomes President of the United States

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.

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.

1871 Marriage / Partner
Henry S DEVOLL and Mary Elizabeth HASKELL 13 October 1871, Westport, Massachusetts, USA (Westport Point)

He was 32 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)

1879 Birth of Child
Mary Annie DEVOLL was born 13 September 1879, Westport, Massachusetts, USA (Westport Point)

Henry S was 40 years old.