Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" MORRISON

Born

23 March 1836 , Peterborough, New Hampshire, USA

Died

27 November 1894 , Peterborough, New Hampshire, USA

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Josiah Spring MORRISON Phebe KNIGHT

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Born: 23 March 1836 in Peterborough, New Hampshire, USA

Father: Josiah Spring MORRISON

Mother: Phebe KNIGHT

Paternal grandparents: Robert MORRISON , Betsey SPRING

Maternal grandparents: Benjamin KNIGHT , Lucy BARDEN

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Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" married Melville Stephen BUXTON 29 November 1860 in East Jaffrey, New Hampshire, USA . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Melville Stephen BUXTON was born 18 May 1838 in Hancock, New Hampshire, USA. Melville Stephen died 26 May 1911 in Peterborough, New Hampshire, USA.

Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" MORRISON died 27 November 1894 in Peterborough, New Hampshire, USA.
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Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" MORRISON married

Melville Stephen BUXTON
Marriage date: 29 November 1860
Marriage place: East Jaffrey, New Hampshire, USA

Children of Melville Stephen BUXTON and Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" MORRISON

George Sumner BUXTON

Born: 23 March 1879, Langdon, New Hampshire, USA
Died: 23 March 1967, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA

Married: Nellie Maria WRIGHT 10 June 1907 Place: Rockingham, Vermont, USA (Bellows Falls) (Saxton's River) (Cambridgeport)

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Birth — 1836
23 March 1836
Peterborough, New Hampshire, USA

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

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 Marriage / Partner
Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" MORRISON and Melville Stephen BUXTON 29 November 1860, East Jaffrey, New Hampshire, USA

She was 24 years old.

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