Susan Hortense TAFT

Born

5 January 1843 , Uxbridge, Massachusetts, USA

Died

20 January 1878 , Uxbridge, Massachusetts, USA

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Moses TAFT Sylvia Ann WHEELOCK

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Born: 5 January 1843 in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, USA

Father: Moses TAFT

Mother: Sylvia Ann WHEELOCK

Paternal grandparents: Luke TAFT , Nancy WOOD

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Susan Hortense married William Edwin HAYWARD abt. 1868 . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
William Edwin HAYWARD was born July 1839 in Mendon, Massachusetts, USA. William Edwin died 9 February 1925 in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, USA (North Uxbridge).

Susan Hortense TAFT died 20 January 1878 in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, USA .
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William Edwin HAYWARD
Marriage date: abt. 1868
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Children of William Edwin HAYWARD and Susan Hortense TAFT

Harry Taft HAYWARD

Born: 18 September 1868, Uxbridge, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 7 June 1930, Franklin, Massachusetts, USA

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Birth — 1843
5 January 1843
Uxbridge, Massachusetts, 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.

1868 Birth of Child
Harry Taft HAYWARD was born 18 September 1868, Uxbridge, Massachusetts, USA (North Uxbridge)

Susan Hortense was 25 years old.

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.