Ira
CORTRIGHT
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Born: 20 January 1811 in Wantage, Sussex, New Jersey, USA
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Ira married Sarah Jane DECKER . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Sarah Jane DECKER was born August 1817 in Sussex County, New Jersey, USA. Sarah Jane died 23 May 1894 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. Sarah Jane was the child of Silas DECKER and Mary? Marcy? UNKNOWN.
Ira CORTRIGHT died 24 May 1869 in Sparrowbush, Orange, New York, USA.
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Sarah Jane DECKERMarriage place:
Sarah Jane DECKER was the child of Silas DECKER and Mary? Marcy? UNKNOWN
Children of Ira CORTRIGHT and Sarah Jane DECKER
Levi CORTRIGHTDied: 18 February 1921, Caledonia, Livingston, New York, USA
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Birth — 181120 January 1811
Wantage, Sussex, New Jersey, USA
The War of 1812 was a conflict between the United States and Great Britain, lasting from 1812 to 1815. It was primarily fueled by issues such as trade restrictions due to Britain's ongoing war with France, impressment of American sailors into the British Navy, and British support of Native American tribes against American expansion. The war ended with the Treaty of Ghent, restoring pre-war boundaries but resolving few of the initial disputes.
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.
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)
1863 - November 19 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.
Death — 186924 May 1869
Sparrowbush, Orange, New York, USA
He died at the age of 58.
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