Sarah H WENTWORTH

(b. abt. 1832 , Maine, USA d. April 1894 , Brooklyn, New York, USA )

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Sarah H WENTWORTH was born abt. 1832 in Maine, USA

Sarah H WENTWORTH was the child of Ebenezer WENTWORTH and Sarah "Sally" L WOODMAN and the grandchild of: (paternal) Ebenezer WENTWORTH and Jane MERRILL (maternal) Stephen WOODMAN and Ruth BRADBURY

Sarah H WENTWORTH died April 1894 in Brooklyn, New York, USA .

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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)

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 Biddeford, Maine
Name: Sarah H Wentworth
Age: 18
Birth Year: abt 1832
Birthplace: Maine
Home in 1850: Biddeford, York, Maine, USA
Gender: Female
Family Number: 494
Household Members:
Name Age
Ebenezer Wentworth 66
Sarah L Wentworth 63
Osgood H Wentworth 28
Elisabeth J Wentworth 21
Sarah H Wentworth 18
1850 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
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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

1860 New York City
Name: Sarah H Wentworth
Age: 27
Birth Year: abt 1833
Gender: Female
Birth Place: Maine
Home in 1860: New York Ward 8 District 3, New York, New York
Post Office: New York
Family Number: 49
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Household Members:
Name Age
H O Wentworth 37
Susan A Wentworth 35
Sarah H Wentworth 27
Ann Wecks 24
Harriet Williamson 17
W H Guiney 67

1860 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
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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.

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