Eleanor HOLMES

Born

10 September 1850 , Holmesville, Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

Died

7 December 1938 , Giberson Settlement, Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

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Hiram HOLMES Phoebe GREEN

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Born: 10 September 1850 in Holmesville, Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

Father: Hiram HOLMES

Mother: Phoebe GREEN

Paternal grandparents: Moses HOLMES , Olive BUBAR

Maternal grandparents: Joseph GREEN , Sophronia Susannah KINNEY

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Eleanor married Samuel KINNEY abt. 1873 in New Brunswick, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Samuel KINNEY was born abt. 1853 in Mineral, Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada. Samuel was the child of Edward Edmund KINNEY and Frances Bubar HOLMES.

Eleanor HOLMES died 7 December 1938 in Giberson Settlement, Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada.
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Eleanor HOLMES married

Samuel KINNEY
Marriage date: abt. 1873
Marriage place: , New Brunswick, Canada
Samuel KINNEY was the child of Edward Edmund KINNEY and Frances Bubar HOLMES

Children of Samuel KINNEY and Eleanor HOLMES

Alfred Edmond KINNEY

Born: 10 June 1879, Holmesville, Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: 30 November 1963, Beechwood, Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

Married: Jeanette "Nettie" BROAD 5 August 1901

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Birth — 1850
10 September 1850
Holmesville, Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1879 Birth of Child
Alfred Edmond KINNEY was born 10 June 1879, Holmesville, Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

Eleanor was 28 years old.

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

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

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - May 1 - Charles Tupper becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)

1901 - King Camp Gillette and William Emery Nickerson invented the world's first disposable razor blade in 1901. (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)

1901 - January 22 - Edward VII becomes King of England

1902 - July 17 - Willis Haviland Carrier designed the first modern air-conditioning system. (Buffalo, New York, USA)

1903 - The first engine-powered airplane is invented (Wilbur & Orville Wright, United States)

1906 - August 22 – The first Victor Victrola, a phonographic record player, was manufactured, revolutionizing the way people listened to music at home.

In 1906, Reginald Fessenden made the first AM radio broadcast on December 24th. This event marked a significant advancement in radio technology, paving the way for the modern broadcasting industry.

1907-1908 - The electric washing machine is invented (Alva J. Fisher, United States)

1908 - First Model-T car is produced by Henry Ford (United States)

1910 - May 6 - George V becomes King of England

1911 - October 10 - Robert Borden becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1912 - April 15 - Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic

1913 - The assembly line is invented (Henry Ford, United States)

The bra is invented (Mary Phelps Jacob, United States)

1920 - July 10 - Arthur Meighen becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1921 - Charles Strite of Minnesota patents the pop-up toaster.

1921 - December 29 - William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1923 to 1927 - Television is invented (Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (Russia), Philo Taylor Farnsworth (United States))

1926 - June 29 - Arthur Meighen becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1926 - September 25 - William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Prime Minister of Canada