Solomon WASHBURN

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August 1796 , Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Died

28 June 1869 , Preston, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Born: August 1796 in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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Solomon married Catherine RYCKMAN 28 March 1819 in West Flamborough, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Catherine RYCKMAN was born 25 December 1800 in Sophiasburgh, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada. Catherine died 1 May 1870 in Preston, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Catherine was the child of Edward RYCKMAN and Anna WARREN.

Solomon WASHBURN died 28 June 1869 in Preston, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

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Solomon WASHBURN married

Catherine RYCKMAN
Marriage date: 28 March 1819
Marriage place: West Flamborough, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada
Catherine RYCKMAN was the child of Edward RYCKMAN and Anna WARREN

Children of Solomon WASHBURN and Catherine RYCKMAN

John Simcoe WASHBURN

Born: 2 March 1839, West Flamborough, Wentworth, Upper Canada
Died: 15 October 1916, , Ontario, Canada

Married: Laura Louisa EATON 11 September 1863 Place: , Ontario, Canada

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Birth — 1796
August 1796
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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

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

1818 - Canada's border is defined as the 49th Parallel from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.

1819 Marriage / Partner
Solomon WASHBURN and Catherine RYCKMAN 28 March 1819, West Flamborough, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada

He was 22 years old.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

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)

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

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1837 - June 20 - Victoria becomes Queen of England

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

1839 Birth of Child
John Simcoe WASHBURN was born 2 March 1839, West Flamborough, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada

Solomon was 42 years old.

1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States

1841 - February 11 – Act of Union - The two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada

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)

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

1863 Marriage of Child
John Simcoe WASHBURN married 11 September 1863, , Ontario, Canada to Laura Louisa EATON

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.