Elisha Galusha SMITH

(b. 21 May 1812 , Warren, Rhode Island, USA d. 27 September 1880 , Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA )

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Elisha Galusha SMITH was born 21 May 1812 in Warren, Rhode Island, USA

Elisha Galusha SMITH was the child of Jonathan SMITH and Abigail BOWEN and the grandchild of: (paternal) Constant SMITH and Martha GALUSHA

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Elisha Galusha married Maria JACKSON 27 October 1842 in Wrentham, Massachusetts, USA . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Maria JACKSON was born abt. 1822 in Massachusetts, USA. Maria was the child of Laban JACKSON and Mary Ann MEADER.

Elisha Galusha SMITH died 27 September 1880 in Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA .
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Elisha Galusha SMITH married

Maria JACKSON-- Date: 27 October 1842 Place: Wrentham, Massachusetts, USA
Maria JACKSON was the child of Laban JACKSON and Mary Ann MEADER

Children of Elisha Galusha SMITH and Maria JACKSON:

Anna Maria SMITH (b.5 August 1844, Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA d. 7 May 1931, Westborough, Massachusetts, USA )
m. George Gilbert NURSE 6 March 1864 in Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA (Attleborough) (South Attleboro)

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1812 Birth
21 May 1812
Warren, Rhode Island, USA

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1817 - James Monroe becomes President of the United States

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1825 - John Quincy Adams becomes President of the United States

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1826 - Former U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both die on the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1827 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1829 - Andrew Jackson becomes President of the United States

1830 - The Indian Removal Act marks the beginning of the forced relocation of five tribes of native Americans, known as Trail of Tears

1837 - Martin Van Buren becomes President of the United States

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

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

From the 1840s through the 1880s, thousands trekked westward, carrying only a few belonging and supplies for the journey, and settling on the western frontier, forever changing the American West.

1841 - William Henry Harrison becomes President of the United States

1841 - John Tyler becomes President of the United States

1842 Marriage / Partner
Elisha Galusha SMITH and Maria JACKSON 27 October 1842, Wrentham, Massachusetts, USA

He was 30 years old.

1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1844 Birth of Child
Anna Maria SMITH was born 5 August 1844, Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA (Attleborough) (South Attleboro)

Elisha Galusha was 32 years old.

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)

1864 Marriage of Child
Anna Maria SMITH married 6 March 1864, Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA (Attleborough) (South Attleboro) to George Gilbert NURSE

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)