Hilliard Page DAMON

(b. 25 March 1854 , Augusta, Maine, USA d. abt. 1938 , California, USA )

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Hilliard Page DAMON was born 25 March 1854 in Augusta, Maine, USA

Hilliard Page DAMON was the child of Edwin DAMON and Sarah LOVEJOY

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Hilliard Page married Amanda B COX 11 March 1874 in St Albans, Maine, USA . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
They divorced. Amanda B COX was born 6 August 1840 in Parkman, Maine, USA. Amanda B died 5 January 1904 in Farmington, Maine, USA. Amanda B was the child of Ezra COX and Mary R FISHER.

Hilliard Page married (2) Clara MCCOMISKEY 25 September 1927 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA . Clara MCCOMISKEY was born abt. 1871

Hilliard Page DAMON died abt. 1938 in California, USA.
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Hilliard Page DAMON married

Amanda B COX-- Date: 11 March 1874 Place: St Albans, Maine, USA
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Amanda B COX was the child of Ezra COX and Mary R FISHER

Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907
groom's name: Hilliard P. Damon
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bride's name: Amanda B. Cox
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marriage date: 11 Mar 1874
marriage place: St Albans, Somerset, Maine
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indexing project (batch) number: I00654-2
system origin: Maine-EASy
source film number: 12062
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Libelant: Amanda B. Damon
Libelee: Hilliard P. Damon
Date of Divorce: 1891
County Where Divorced: Androscoggin
Notes: Divorce case heard Apr. term, 1891.
Source: Maine Supreme Judicial Court Records (Androscoggin Co.), 25-399 (docket no. 248)
Source citation: "Maine Divorces, 1799-1903," database, Maine Genealogy (www.mainegenealogy.net : accessed 6 September 2012), entry for Amanda B. Damon & Hilliard P. Damon, 1891, citing Maine Divorce Index, Maine State Archives.

Children of Hilliard Page DAMON and Amanda B COX:

Charles Ethelbert DAMON (b.5 December 1879, St Albans, Maine, USA d. 2 June 1942, Santa Clara, California, USA)
m. Florence May HUBBACK 19 July 1909 in Santa Clara, California, USA
m. Estella Lorena MCGUIRE 1920

Hilliard Page DAMON married

Clara MCCOMISKEY-- Date: 25 September 1927 Place: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
1927
MRS DISBROW, 56, TO MARRY H. P. DAMON, 72
Romance Started in Maine Three Years Ago Wedding Will Take Place in Roslindale Next Week
Boston Daily Globe (1923-1927) - Boston, Mass.
Date: Sep 16, 1927
Start Page: 21
Pages: 1
Text Word Count: 561

A romance of three years' standing between a woman of 56 and a man of 72 was revealed yesterday, when Mrs Clara A. Disbrow of 3969 Washington at, Roslindale, appeared at the marriage license bureau in City Hall and filed Intentions to marry Hilliard P. Damon of Carmel, ...

Name: Hilliard Damon
Gender: Male
Residence: Etna, ME
Spouse's Name: Clara Mccomiskey
Spouse's Gender: Female
Spouse's Residence: Boston, MA
Marriage Date: 25 Sep 1927
Marriage Place: Maine, USA

Name: Hilliard Damon
Gender: Male
Residence: Etna, ME
Spouse's Name: Clara Disbrow
Spouse's Gender: Female
Spouse's Residence: Boston, MA
Marriage Date: 25 Sep 1927
Marriage Place: Maine, USA

Ancestry.com. Maine, Marriages, 1892-1996 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003.
Original data: Maine State Archives. Maine Marriages 1892-1996 (except 1967 to 1976). Maine. Index obtained from Maine Department of the Secretary of State, Maine State Archives, www.state.me.us

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1854 Birth
Maine, Births and Christenings, 1739-1900
name: Hilliard P. Damon
gender: Male
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birth date: 25 Mar 1854
birthplace: AUGUSTA,KENNEBEC,MAINE
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father's name: Edwin Damon
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mother's name: Sarah Lovejoy
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indexing project (batch) number: C50263-1
system origin: Maine-ODM
source film number: 1033823
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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 Charleston, Penobscot, Maine
name: Hilliard Damon
residence: , Penobscot, Maine
ward: Charleston
age: 6 years
estimated birth year: 1854
birthplace:
gender: Male
page: 26
family number: 180
film number: 803447
dgs number: 4231258
image number: 00591
nara number: M653
1860 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
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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.

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 Marriage / Partner
Hilliard Page DAMON and Amanda B COX 11 March 1874, St Albans, Maine, USA

He was 19 years old.

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)

1879 Birth of Child
Charles Ethelbert DAMON was born 5 December 1879, St Albans, Maine, USA

Hilliard Page was 25 years old.

1880 Palmyra, Somerset, Maine
Name: Hilliard P. Daman
Age: 27
Birth Year: abt 1853
Birthplace: Maine
Home in 1880: Palmyra, Somerset, Maine
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital status: Married
Spouse's Name: Amanda B. Daman
Father's Birthplace: Maine
Mother's Birthplace: Maine
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Occupation: Farmer
Household Members:
Name Age
Hilliard P. Daman 27
Amanda B. Daman 34
Charles E. Daman 1
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

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 - 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 Death of Spouse/Partner
Amanda B COX died 5 January 1904, Farmington, Maine, USA

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

1906 - August 22 – The first Victor Victrola, a phonographic record player, was manufactured, revolutionizing the way people listened to music at home.

In 1906, Reginald Fessenden made the first AM radio broadcast on December 24th. This event marked a significant advancement in radio technology, paving the way for the modern broadcasting industry.

1907-1908 - The electric washing machine is invented (Alva J. Fisher, United States)

1908 - First Model-T car is produced by Henry Ford (United States)

1909 - William Howard Taft becomes President of the United States

1909 Marriage of Child
Charles Ethelbert DAMON married 19 July 1909, Santa Clara, California, USA to Florence May HUBBACK

1912 - April 15 - Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic

1913 - The assembly line is invented (Henry Ford, United States)

The bra is invented (Mary Phelps Jacob, United States)

1913 - Woodrow Wilson becomes President of the United States

1913 - October 31 – The Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across the United States, is dedicated

1915 - January 25 - First United States coast-to-coast long-distance telephone call

1917 - March 2 – The enactment of the Jones Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.

1917 - April 6 – WWI: The United States declares war on Germany

1918 - March 19 – The United States Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time

1919 - June 4 – Women's rights: The United States Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification

1920 - January 17 - Prohibition goes into effect on January 17, 1920, under the provisions of the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution

1921 - Warren G. Harding becomes President of the United States

1921 - Charles Strite of Minnesota patents the pop-up toaster.

1923 to 1927 - Television is invented (Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (Russia), Philo Taylor Farnsworth (United States))

1923 - Calvin Coolidge becomes President of the United States

1927 - The aerosol can is invented (Erik Rotheim, Norway)

1927 Marriage / Partner
Hilliard Page DAMON and Clara MCCOMISKEY 25 September 1927, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (East, North, South) (Allston) (Readville) (Roslindale)

He was 73 years old.

1927 - April 7 – Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Herbert Hoover (then the Secretary of Commerce), which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television

1928 - Sliced bread (bread slicing machine) is invented by Otto Frederick Rohwedder (United States)

1929 - Herbert Hoover becomes President of the United States

1929 - October 29 - Black Tuesday - Stock market crash - The Great Depression Begins - It lasted until 1941 (WW2)

1930 - Scotch tape is invented (Richard Drew (3M), United States)

1930 Bangor, Penobscot, Maine
name: Hillard Damon
event: Census
event date: 1930
event place: Bangor, Penobscot, Maine
gender: Male
age: 74
marital status: Married
race: White
birthplace: Maine
estimated birth year: 1856
immigration year:
relationship to head of household: Head
father's birthplace: Maine
mother's birthplace: Maine
enumeration district number: 0012
family number: 110
sheet number and letter: 5A
line number: 41
nara publication: T626, roll 836
film number: 2340571
digital folder number: 4584736
image number: 00995
Household Gender Age
Hillard Damon M 74
spouse Clara Damon F 59
Ruth Oconnell F 11
1930 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
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In 1930, on February 18, Pluto was discovered by astronomer Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, marking a significant milestone in the study of our solar system.

1931 - The paper towel is invented (Arthur Scott, United States)

1931 - March 3 – The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the United States National anthem.

1933 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes President of the United States

1933 - December 5 – The 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed, repealing Prohibition

1934 - The metal beverage can is invented (American Can Co., United States)

1935 - The snowmobile was invented by Joseph Bombardier (Quebec, Canada)

1935 - August 14 – United States President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law

Death
Name: Hilliard P. Damon
Birth Date: 1854
Age at Death: 84
Death Date: 1938
Burial Place: Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, USA

Oak Grove Cemetery
Bangor
Penobscot County
Maine, USA
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