Rosetta  DOUGLASS

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Rosetta DOUGLASS married    Nathan SPRAGUE
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  Annie Rosine SPRAGUE

Born: abt. 1865, Rochester, New York, USA
Died: abt. 1893,

  Harriet Bailey SPRAGUE

Born: 27 November 1866, Rochester, New York, USA
Died: 1 November 1940, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

  Alice Louisa SPRAGUE

Born: abt. 1869, Rochester, New York, USA
Died: 8 June 1875, Rochester, New York, USA

  Herbert Douglass SPRAGUE

Born: 17 March 1874, Rochester, New York, USA
Died: 26 June 1943, Manhattan, New York, USA

  Estelle Irene SPRAGUE

Born: 11 August 1876, Rochester, New York, USA
Died: 14 October 1927, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

  Rosabelle Mary SPRAGUE

Born: 25 September 1877, Washington, DC, USA
Died: ,

  Frederica Douglass SPRAGUE

Born: 9 August 1880, Rochester, New York, USA
Died: 23 October 1943, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

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Birth — 1839
24 June 1839
New Bedford, Massachusetts, 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

    


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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.

1866 Birth of Child
Harriet Bailey SPRAGUE was born 27 November 1866, Rochester, New York, USA

Rosetta was 27 years old.

 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.

1874 Birth of Child
Herbert Douglass SPRAGUE was born 17 March 1874, Rochester, New York, USA

Rosetta was 34 years old.

1875 Death of Child
Alice Louisa SPRAGUE died 8 June 1875, Rochester, New York, USA

Rosetta was 35 years old.

 1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1876 Birth of Child
Estelle Irene SPRAGUE was born 11 August 1876, Rochester, New York, USA

Rosetta was 37 years old.

1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President of the United States

1877 Birth of Child
Rosabelle Mary SPRAGUE was born 25 September 1877, Washington, DC, USA

Rosetta was 38 years old.

 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 Birth of Child
Frederica Douglass SPRAGUE was born 9 August 1880, Rochester, New York, USA

Rosetta was 41 years old.

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

1893 - Grover Cleveland becomes President of the United States

1896 - Rosetta Douglass Sprague was a founding member of the National Association of Colored Women.

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 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 - 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.

    
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Mount Hope Cemetery Rochester Monroe County New York, USA Plot: Range 2 (93-230 section)

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Death — 1906
25 November 1906
Washington, DC, USA
She died at the age of 67.

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