Margaret SHEEHAN

(b. abt. 1844 , New York, USA d. 26 January 1880 , Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA )

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Margaret SHEEHAN was born abt. 1844 in New York, USA

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Margaret SHEEHAN died 26 January 1880 in Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA.

Father: Edward Sheehan
Mother: Catherine Condon
Spouse: Cummings

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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

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

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)

Death
Name: Margaret Cummings
Gender: Female
Burial Date:
Burial Place: Hol.
Death Date: 26 Jan 1880
Death Place: Holyoke, Hampden Co, Massachusetts
Age: 36
Birth Date: 1844
Birth Place: New York
Occupation:
Race:
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Cummings
Father's Name: Edward Sheehan
Father's Birthplace: Ire.
Mother's Name: Catherine Condon
Mother's Birthplace: Ire.
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B01270-6
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
GS Film number: 2026621
Reference ID: v 2 p 88

'Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910,' database, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ ark:/ 61903/ 1:1:FHMM-F52 : 10 December 2014), Margaret Cummings, 26 Jan 1880; citing Holyoke, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, reference v 2 p 88; FHL microfilm 2,026,621.'