Ebenezer ODLIN

Born

15 April 1816 , Lubec, Massachusetts (District of Maine)

Died

31 January 1881 , Lewiston, Maine, USA

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Samuel ODLIN Mehetable LAMBERT

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Born: 15 April 1816 in Lubec, Massachusetts (District of Maine)

Father: Samuel ODLIN

Mother: Mehetable LAMBERT

Paternal grandparents: Elisha ODLIN , Sarah SIBLEY

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Ebenezer married Elizabeth MARSH 1 April 1844 in Bangor, Maine, USA . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Elizabeth MARSH was born 22 October 1813 in Palmyra, Maine, USA. Elizabeth died 29 September 1896 in Manton, Wexford, Michigan, USA. Elizabeth was the child of Samuel MARSH and Sarah Sally MCCLURE.

Ebenezer ODLIN died 31 January 1881 in Lewiston, Maine, USA.
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Elizabeth MARSH
Marriage date: 1 April 1844
Marriage place: Bangor, Maine, USA
Elizabeth MARSH was the child of Samuel MARSH and Sarah Sally MCCLURE

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Frederick Leighton ODLIN

Born: 2 June 1850, Pittsfield, Maine, USA
Died: 6 January 1909, Lewiston, Maine, USA

Married: Nancy Orilene WALTON 25 December 1873 Place: Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA

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Birth — 1816
15 April 1816
Lubec, Massachusetts (District of Maine)

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

1817 - James Monroe becomes President of the United States

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

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)

1844 Marriage / Partner
Ebenezer ODLIN and Elizabeth MARSH 1 April 1844, Bangor, Maine, USA

He was 27 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Frederick Leighton ODLIN was born 2 June 1850, Pittsfield, Maine, USA (Plymouth Gore) (Plantation of Sebasticook) (Warsaw)

Ebenezer was 34 years old.

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.

1873 Marriage of Child
Frederick Leighton ODLIN married 25 December 1873, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA to Nancy Orilene WALTON

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)

Death — 1881
31 January 1881
Lewiston, Maine, USA
He died at the age of 64.

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The name Maine is probably a practical nautical term which refers to the region being a mainland (separate from the many surrounding islands). Reference to the area as 'Maine' in writing first appeared in 1622. (statesymbolsusa.org)

Prior to 1685 - New England
1686 - 1689 - Dominion of New England
1690 - 1775 - New England
1776 - 1820 - Massachusetts (District of Maine)
March 15, 1820 - Maine becomes 23rd U.S. state

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