Henry PLUMMER

(b. May 1846 , Raymond, Maine, USA d. 7 April 1902 , Poland, Maine, USA )
Age: 55
Cause of Death: heart failure

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Henry PLUMMER was born May 1846 in Raymond, Maine, USA

Henry PLUMMER was the child of ? and ?

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

Henry married Lydia Jane VERRILL 2 April 1881 in Gray, Maine, USA . Lydia Jane VERRILL was born 4 June 1842 in New Gloucester, Maine, USA. Lydia Jane died 14 August 1901 in Minot, Maine, USA (West Minot). Lydia Jane was the child of William VERRILL and Lydia TRIPP.

Henry PLUMMER died 7 April 1902 in Poland, Maine, USA .

son of Sewell Plummer and Eunice Harmon

NOTE: Henry Plummer was the uncle of Jessie Cobb, the murdered woman in the story above. He was one of the witnesses who gave testimony to the coroner's jury.

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Henry PLUMMER married

Lydia Jane VERRILL-- Date: 2 April 1881 Place: Gray, Maine, USA
Lydia Jane VERRILL was the child of William VERRILL and Lydia TRIPP

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1846 Birth
May 1846
Raymond, Maine, USA

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)

1881 - The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.

1881 Marriage / Partner
Henry PLUMMER and Lydia Jane VERRILL 2 April 1881, Gray, Maine, USA

He was 34 years old.

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.

1900 Minot, Androscoggin, Maine
name: Henry Plummer
titles & terms:
event: Census
event date: 1900
event place: ED 30 Mechanic Falls & Minot towns Mechanic Falls village, Androscoggin, Maine, United States
birth date: May 1846
birthplace: Maine
relationship to head of household: Head
father's birthplace: Maine
mother's birthplace: Maine
race or color (standardized): White
gender: Male
marital status: Married
years married: 19
estimated marriage year: 1881
mother how many children:
number living children:
immigration year:
page: 19
sheet letter: B
family number: 496
reference number: 62
film number: 1240588
digital folder number: 004119815
image number: 00156
Household Gender Age Birthplace
head Henry Plummer M 54 Maine
wife Lydia Plummer F 57 Maine
1900 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
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1901 - King Camp Gillette and William Emery Nickerson invented the world's first disposable razor blade in 1901. (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)

1901 Death of Spouse/Partner
Lydia Jane VERRILL died 14 August 1901, Minot, Maine, USA (West Minot)

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 Death
Name: Henry Plummer
Gender: Male
Age: 55
Birth Date: abt 1847
Death Date: 7 Apr 1902
Death Place: Poland
Registration Place: Poland, Androscoggin
Father: Sewall
Mother: Annice

Source Information:

Ancestry.com. Maine, Death Records, 1617-1922 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
Original data: Maine Death Records, 1617-1922. Augusta, Maine: Maine State Archives

Henry is buried at: Buried with his wife in Gray, Maine page 63 Descendants of Richard Varrell by Harold F. Round, 1968

Added: 6/11/2012 4:14:34 PM - Updated: 3/27/2025 1:19:18 PM