Mary VAN DYKE

Born

12 February 1796 , Highgate, Vermont, USA

Died

24 April 1883 , East Hereford, Compton, Québec, Canada

Mary married Jubal WHEELER 14 August 1814 . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jubal WHEELER was born 18 February 1789 in Grafton, Massachusetts, USA . Jubal died 2 November 1866 in East Hereford, Compton, Canada East.

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Spouses, Marriages & Children of Mary VAN DYKE

Mary VAN DYKE married

Jubal WHEELER
Marriage date: 14 August 1814
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Children of Jubal WHEELER and Mary VAN DYKE

John WHEELER

Born: 12 October 1828, Henryville, Lower Canada
Died: 15 January 1900, Paquetteville, Compton, Quebec, Canada

Married: Abigail-Jane VAN DYKE 1868

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1796
12 February 1796
Highgate, Vermont, USA

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1814 Marriage / Partner
Mary VAN DYKE and Jubal WHEELER 14 August 1814,

She was 18 years old.

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

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

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1828 Birth of Child
John WHEELER was born 12 October 1828, Henryville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Georges-de-Henryville)

Mary was 32 years old.

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

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)

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1866 Death of Spouse/Partner
Jubal WHEELER died 2 November 1866, East Hereford, Compton, Québec, Canada

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

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

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.

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

Death — 1883
24 April 1883
East Hereford, Compton, Québec, Canada
She died at the age of 87.

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French explorer Samuel de Champlain called the Green Mountains of Vermont 'Verd Mont' (green mountain) on his 1647 map. (statesymbolsusa.org)

Prior to 1685 - New England
1686 - 1689 - Dominion of New England
1690 - 1775 - New England
1776 - 1791 - Vermont Republic (New Hampshire Grants)
March 4, 1791 - Vermont becomes 14th U.S. state

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