Allen MOSHER

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15 March 1825 , Venice, Cayuga, New York, USA

Died

24 November 1906 , Ledyard, New York, USA

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Asael MOSHER Cynthia WOOD

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Born: 15 March 1825 in Venice, Cayuga, New York, USA

Father: Asael MOSHER

Mother: Cynthia WOOD

Maternal grandparents: John WOOD , Dinah HUSSEY

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Allen married Marion Isabel WHEELER abt. 1855 . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Marion Isabel WHEELER was born 24 April 1829 in Fall River, Massachusetts, USA. Marion Isabel died 23 August 1901 in Ledyard, New York, USA (Aurora). Marion Isabel was the child of Cyrenus WHEELER and Thirza Dillingham EVANS.

Allen MOSHER died 24 November 1906 in Ledyard, New York, USA .
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Marion Isabel WHEELER
Marriage date: abt. 1855
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Marion Isabel WHEELER was the child of Cyrenus WHEELER and Thirza Dillingham EVANS

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Evans Wheeler MOSHER

Born: 30 April 1855, Ledyard, New York, USA
Died: 7 September 1941, Pasadena, California, USA

Married: Mary Eliza WEEKS 13 October 1877 Place: Cayuga County, New York, USA

May Isabel MOSHER

Born: 3 March 1870, Ledyard, New York, USA
Died: 12 July 1959, Manhattan, New York, USA

Married: Harry Wheeler POWELL 28 January 1905 Place: Ledyard, New York, USA (Aurora)

Married: Lambert FAIRCHILD 9 August 1928 Place: Manhattan, New York, USA (New York City) (New Amsterdam) (Washington Heights)

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Birth — 1825
15 March 1825
Venice, Cayuga, New York, USA

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)

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 - Millard Fillmore becomes President of the United States

1853 - Franklin Pierce becomes President of the United States

1855 Venice, Cayuga, New York
name: Allen Mosher
event: Census
event date: 1855
event place: Venice, Cayuga, New York, United States
gender: Male
age: 30
relationship to head of household: Head
estimated birth year: 1825
family number: 302
line number: 33
page: 34
film number: 1435219
digital folder number: 004296305
image number: 00455
Household Gender Age Birthplace
head Allen Mosher M 30
wife Maron Mosher F 26
child Evans W Mosher U 0
servant Ruth C Wetsell U 26

'New York, State Census, 1855,' index and images, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ pal:/ MM9.1.1/ K6SX-HKD : accessed 10 Feb 2013), Allen Mosher, 1855.
1855 New York State Census
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1855 Birth of Child
Evans Wheeler MOSHER was born 30 April 1855, Ledyard, New York, USA (Aurora)

Allen was 30 years old.

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 Ledyard, Cayuga, New York
Allen Mosher, age 45, teller bank, b. NY
Mary Mosher, age 46, b. MA
Evan Mosher, age 15, b. NY
Mary Mosher, age 3/ 12, b. NY
Eliza Bening, age 20, b. Ireland
1870 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
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1870 Birth of Child
May Isabel MOSHER was born 3 March 1870, Ledyard, New York, USA (Aurora)

Allen was 44 years old.

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

1877 Marriage of Child
Evans Wheeler MOSHER married 13 October 1877, Cayuga County, New York, USA to Mary Eliza WEEKS

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)

1880 Aurora, Cayuga, New York
Allen Mosher, 55, banker, b. NY, parents b. VT
Marion I. Mosher, 50, b. MA, parents b. MA
May I. Mosher, daughter, 10, b. NY, at school
Hannah Hellen, servant, 21, b. NY, parents b. Ireland
1880 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
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1881 - The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.

1881 - March 4 - James A. Garfield becomes President of the United States

1881 - July 2 - James A. Garfield was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., at 9:30 am on Saturday, July 2, 1881. He died in Elberon, New Jersey, two months later on September 19, 1881. The shooting occurred less than four months into his term as president. Charles J. Guiteau was convicted of Garfield's murder and executed by hanging one year after the shooting. Chester Arthur becomes President of the United States.

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

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

1885 - Grover Cleveland becomes President of the United States

1886 - October 28 - Statue of Liberty is Unveiled

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

1889 - Benjamin Harrison becomes President of the United States

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

1892 Ledyard, E.D. 1, Cayuga, New York
Allen Mosher, m, 66, b. US, banker?
Maria I Mosher, f, 62, b. US
May I Mosher, f, 20, b. US
1892 New York State Census
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1893 - Grover Cleveland becomes President of the United States

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

1897 - William McKinley becomes President of the United States

1898 - April 25 – Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain

1898 - December 10 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Spanish-American War.

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

1901 Death of Spouse/Partner
Marion Isabel WHEELER died 23 August 1901, Ledyard, New York, USA (Aurora)

1901 - William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition in the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, six months into his second term. He was shaking hands with the public when an anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, shot him twice in the abdomen. Theodore Roosevelt becomes President of the United States.

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)

1904 - June 28 - U.S. begins construction of Panama Canal.

1905 Marriage of Child
May Isabel MOSHER married 28 January 1905, Ledyard, New York, USA (Aurora) to Harry Wheeler POWELL

Obituary
MOSHER—At his late home in Aurora, N.Y., Saturday afternoon, November 24, 1906, Allen Mosher, in the 82nd year of his age.

ALLEN MOSHER DEAD-Had Spent His Entire Life in the County of Cayuga

Allen Mosher of Aurora, one of Cayuga county's oldest citizens, died at his home in the village of Aurora, Saturday afternoon after a very brief illness, angina pectoris causing death.

He was a son of the late Cynthia Wood and Asael Mosher, and was born in the Town of Venice March 15, 1825.

In l856 he moved to the Village of Aurora and engaged in the grain business with Henry and Edwin B. Morgan in the days when great quantities were handled in the storehouses
and canal boats on Cayuga Lake. Since 1865 he has been in the banking business with the First National Bank of Aurora. He has been a cashier for 40 years.

He was a man of retiring disposition, sterling and honorable in character, which had won for him the esteem and respect of citizens not only in this county but in central...Read full story