Alonzo LEAVITT

(b. 14 February 1833 , Melbourne, Quebec, Canada d. 23 January 1877 , Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada )

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Alonzo LEAVITT was born 14 February 1833 in Melbourne, Quebec, Canada

Alonzo LEAVITT was the child of Dudley LEAVITT and Judith Lovina PEASE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Wadleigh LEAVITT and Elizabeth Cram LEAVITT (maternal) Nathaniel PEASE and Judith PEASE

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

Alonzo married Mary Jane CONWAY 29 August 1853 in Richmond, Melbourne, Le Val-Saint-François, Quebec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Mary Jane CONWAY was born 4 February 1838 in Richmond, Québec, Canada. Mary Jane died 2 February 1922 in Rumford, Maine, USA. Mary Jane was the child of Barney CONWAY and Mary UNKNOWN.

Alonzo LEAVITT died 23 January 1877 in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

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Family and Children of Alonzo LEAVITT

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Alonzo LEAVITT married

Mary Jane CONWAY-- Date: 29 August 1853 Place: Richmond, Melbourne, Le Val-Saint-François, Quebec, Canada
Mary Jane CONWAY was the child of Barney CONWAY and Mary UNKNOWN

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Children of Alonzo LEAVITT and Mary Jane CONWAY:

William Henry LEAVITT (b.12 July 1866, Wickham, Drummond, Quebec, Canada d. 9 November 1905, Claremont, New Hampshire, USA)
m. Myrtie Luella COOKSON 13 September 1901 in Newport, Maine, USA (East Pond Plantation)

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1833 Birth
14 February 1833
Melbourne, Quebec, Canada

1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1837 - June 20 - Victoria becomes Queen of England

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States

1841 - February 11 – Act of Union - The two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada

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)

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1853 Marriage / Partner
Alonzo LEAVITT and Mary Jane CONWAY 29 August 1853, Richmond, Melbourne, Le Val-Saint-François, Quebec, Canada

He was 20 years old.

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1857 - Ottawa chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the united colony of Canada.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1866 Birth of Child
William Henry LEAVITT was born 12 July 1866, Wickham, Drummond, Quebec, Canada

Alonzo was 33 years old.

1867 - Canada becomes a sovereign nation by an act of the British Parliament (the British North America Act). Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick are united as the Dominion of Canada.