Jacob Moroni SECRIST

(b. 15 August 1850 , Salt Lake City, Utah Territory d. 5 November 1906 , Garland, Box Elder, Utah, USA )

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Jacob Moroni SECRIST was born 15 August 1850 in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory

Jacob Moroni SECRIST was the child of Jacob Foutz SECRIST and Ann Eliza LOGAN

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Jacob Moroni married Polly Estella SMITH 13 September 1869 in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Polly Estella SMITH was born 18 April 1853 in Farmington, Davis, Utah, USA. Polly Estella died 12 December 1882 in Farmington, Davis, Utah, USA.

Jacob Moroni SECRIST died 5 November 1906 in Garland, Box Elder, Utah, USA.
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Jacob Moroni SECRIST married

Polly Estella SMITH-- Date: 13 September 1869 Place: Salt Lake City, Utah Territory

Children of Jacob Moroni SECRIST and Polly Estella SMITH:

Thomas Edwin SECRIST (b.6 May 1872, Farmington, Davis, Utah Territory d. 7 June 1942, Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, USA)
m. Lillian Blanche WOOD 23 August 1888

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1850 Birth
15 August 1850
Salt Lake City, Utah Territory

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 Marriage / Partner
Jacob Moroni SECRIST and Polly Estella SMITH 13 September 1869, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

He was 19 years old.

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.

1872 Birth of Child
Thomas Edwin SECRIST was born 6 May 1872, Farmington, Davis, Utah, USA

Jacob Moroni was 21 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)

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.

1882 Death of Spouse/Partner
Polly Estella SMITH died 12 December 1882, Farmington, Davis, Utah, USA

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

1906 Death
5 November 1906
Garland, Box Elder, Utah, USA

He died at the age of 56.

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Utah originates from an Apache Indian word (yuttahih), which means people of the mountains. (statesymbolsusa.org)

January 14, 1896 - Utah becomes 45th U.S. state