Eli A. NEWTON

(b. abt. 1842 , Vermont, USA d. 17 March 1879 , Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA )

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Eli A. NEWTON was born abt. 1842 in Vermont, USA

Eli A. NEWTON was the child of ? and ?

Eli A. NEWTON died 17 March 1879 in Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA.

Father: Joseph
Mother: Mary St. Jude

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Occupation

Eli A. NEWTON was a Saloon Keeper.

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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)

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)

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.

Death
Name: Eli A. Newton
Gender: Male
Burial Date:
Burial Place: Hol.
Death Date: 17 Mar 1879
Death Place: Holyoke, Hampden Co, Massachusetts
Age: 37
Birth Date: 1842
Birth Place: Virgennes, Vt.
Occupation: Saloon Keeper
Race:
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Joseph
Father's Birthplace: Canada
Mother's Name: Mary St. Jude
Mother's Birthplace: Can
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B01270-6
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
GS Film number: 2026621
Reference ID: v 2 p 77

'Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910,' database, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ ark:/ 61903/ 1:1:FHMM-M52 : 10 December 2014), Eli A. Newton, 17 Mar 1879; citing Holyoke, Hampden Co, Massachusetts, reference v 2 p 77; FHL microfilm 2,026,621.'