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Henry C. Purmort
Generation:8
Born:December 15th, 1845
Died:---
Father:Adoniram J. Purmort
Mother:Amanda B. (Jordan) Purmort
Occupation(s): ---
Marriages:• Lillian Martha (Blish) Purmort
At Jay, NY, USA
Children:Eugene H. Purmort

From the work of JKB, the 1st Blish Compiler

Henry C. Purmort finished his education at the Fairfax Seminary, Vermont, and later graduated from Eastman's College at Poughkeepsie, New York in March, 1863. After clerking for a time, he entered the office of Jay Gould at Rutland, Vermont, where he gained considerable experience. Coming to Chicago, he worked for some time in the office of the C. B. & Q. Railroad. In 1867 he went into the lumber business for T. W. Harvey, and later was with Palmer, Fuller and Company. In 1880 he started in the same business on his own account, and has been very successful.

Henry C. Purmort
   Adoniram J. PurmortAmanda B. (Jordan) Purmort   
 ------  ? Jordan? (?) Jordan 
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Henry C. Purmort*

1845 through 1945

1829-1851 2nd Cholera pandemic
1830-1860 Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US
1837-1901 Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover)
  1845   Texas enters the union - 28th
1845-1848 James K Polk president of US
  1845   Florida enters the union - 27th
1845-1849 Irish Potato Famine
  1846   Iowa enters the union - 29th
1846-1848 The Mexican-US War
  1848   NY allows women to own real estate
  1848   Oregon organized as a territory
  1848   Wisconsin enters the union - 30th
1848-1856 1st gold rush in California -- Sutters Mill
1849-1852 Zachary Taylor president of the US
  1849   Fizeau measures speed of light
  1850   Utah (included Nevada) organized as a territory
  1850   US pop reaches 23 million
  1850   California enters the union - 31st
  1850   New Mexico organized as a territory
  1850   World pop. est. at 1.1 billion
  1850   W. H. F. Talbot develops idea of halftone printing
  1851   Gold rush in Australia
1852-1859 3rd Cholera pandemic
1853-1856 Franklin Pierce president of US
  1853   Washington (included pt. of Idaho) organized as a territory
1854-1856 Crimean War
  1854   Nebraska organized as a territory
  1854   Kansas organized as a territory
  1856   Celluloid, the first thermoplastic
1857-1860 James Buchanan president of US
1857-1866 Transatlantic cable laid
  1857   Dred Scott decision: Blacks could not be US citizens
  1858   Minnesota enters the union - 32nd
  1858   India bill transfers government of India to England
  1859   Darwin pub. Origin Of Species
  1859   Oil Well
  1859   Oregon enters the union - 33rd
  1860   South Carolina Secedes from the Union
  1860   Rifled barrel invented
1861-1865 Abraham Lincoln president of US
  1861   Gold rush in New Zealand
  1861   Colorado organized as a territory
1861-1865 Confederate States of America Exist
  1861   North Dakota organized as a territory
1861-1865 Civil War
  1861   South Dakota organized as a territory
  1861   Nevada organized as a territory
  1861   Kansas enters the union - 34th
  1861   Transcontinental Telegraph completed
  1861   The Apache Declare War on the US
  1862   US Homestead act
  1863   Arizona organized as a territory
  1863   Idaho organized as a territory
  1863   West Virginia enters the union - 35th
  1863   Battle of Gettysburg
  1863   Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves
1863-1879 4th Cholera pandemic
  1864   Louisiana organized as a territory
  1864   Nevada enters the union - 36th
  1865   Ku Klux Klan founded
  1865   President Lincoln assassinated
  1865   Lister invents Disinfection
  1866   Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts)
1866-1868 Andrew Johnson president of US
  1867   Confederation of Canada
  1867   Diamonds discovered in South Africa
  1867   Dynamite
  1867   Nebraska enters the union - 37th
  1867   Alaska purchased from Russia
1868-1878 War between Cuba and Spain
  1868   Helium discovered (Norman Lockyer)
  1869   Suez canal opened
  1869   Trans-continental railroad completed
1869-1876 Ulysses S Grant president of US
  1869   Cutty Sark built
  1869   Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold
  1870   US black men can vote
  1870   1st black US senator (Hiram Revels)
1870-1871 Franco-Prussian war
  1871   Great Fire destroys Chicago
  1873   Color Photographs
1873-1878 Depression, banks fail
  1876   Colorado enters the union - 38th
  1876   Little Big Horn - Battle
  1876   Telephone (Bell, Latimer)
  1876   US Centennial
  1877   Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings
1877-1880 Ruthorford B Hayes president of US
  1878   1st commercial telephone exchange in US
  1879   Electric Light Bulb (Edison)
  1879   Zulu war
  1881   James A Garfield president of US
1881-1885 Chester Arthur president of US
  1881   President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care)
1881-1896 5th Cholera pandemic
  1884   1st subway
  1884   Motorcycle
  1885   Automobile
1885-1888 Grover Cleveland president of US
  1886   Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods)
  1887   X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!)
  1888   Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths
  1888   70...77 rpm musical records
  1889   Holerith invents the punch card
  1889   Washington enters the union - 42nd
1889-1892 Benjamin Harrison president of US
  1889   Montana enters the union - 41st
  1889   South Dakota enters the union - 40th
  1889   North Dakota enters the union - 39th
  1890   Idaho enters the union - 43rd
  1890   Wyoming enters the union - 44th
  1890   Battle of Wounded Knee
  1890   Oklahoma organized as a territory
  1891   Mormon prophesy of coming of lord by 1891 unfulfilled
  1893   New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote
1893-1896 Grover Cleveland president of US
1893-1897 US Financial panic, depression
  1893   Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!)
  1893   Movies
1894-1895 Chinese-Japanese war (1)
  1894   Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die
  1896   Utah enters the union - 45th
  1896   Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation
1897-1901 William McKinley president of US
  1898   Spanish American 1-year war
1899-1902 Boer war
1899-1923 6th Cholera pandemic
  1900   Boxer rebellion in China
  1900   Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed
  1900   Hawaii organized as a territory
  1901   First British submarine launched
1901-1910 Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg)
  1901   Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst)
  1901   Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation
1901-1908 Theodore Roosevelt president of US
  1901   US President William McKinley assassinated
  1901   Commonwealth of Australia founded
  1901   Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts
  1903   Nikola Tesla patents logic gates
  1903   Airplane
  1904   Radar
1904-1905 Russian-Japanese war
  1907   Plastic
  1907   Oklahoma enters the union - 46th
  1908   Tunguska atmospheric object explosion
  1909   Union of South Africa formed
1909-1912 William Howard Taft president of US
  1909   North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Pearys exp.
1910-1936 Reign of King George V (Windsor)
  1910   Japan annexes Korea
  1910   Halleys Comet
  1911   South pole reached by Roald Amundsen
  1912   New Mexico enters the union - 47th
  1912   Titanic sinks
  1912   Arizona enters the union - 48th
  1912   Alaska organized as a territory
1913-1920 Woodrow Wilson president of US
  1914   The Bra
1914-1918 World War I
  1915   Einstein's Theory of Relativity
  1916   Sonar
  1916   Irish Easter Rebellion
  1917   Russian revolution
  1917   US enters WWI
1918-1933 Prohibition
1918-1920 Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die
  1919   League of Nations instantiated
  1919   Shortwave Radio
  1920   Palestine established
1920-1929 Roaring 20s
  1920   Women receive right to vote (US Suffrage)
1921-1924 Warren G Harding president of US
  1922   Insulin made available to diabetics
  1925   Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory
1925-1928 Calvin Coolidge president of US
  1926   Sound in Movies
  1927   Holland Tunnel opens (New York City)
  1927   1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh
  1928   Television
  1928   Geiger Counter
  1928   Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming
  1928   Video Recordings
  1929   Stock Market Crash
1929-1939 Great Depression
1929-1932 Herbert Hoover president of US
  1930   Pluto Discovered
1931-1933 Chinese-Japanese war (2)
1933-1945 Franklin D Roosevelt president of US
  1933   Armstrong invents FM modulation
  1933   Soviet communist party purge
  1933   Radio Astronomy
  1934   Longshoremans strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days
  1935   Dustbowl
1935-1936 Abyssinian war
  1936   Spanish Civil War
  1936   Helicopter
1936-1952 Reign of King George VI (Windsor)
  1936   Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor)
1937-1945 Chinese-Japanese war (3)
  1937   Nylon (by DuPont)
  1938   Germany annexes Austria
1939-1945 World War II
  1939   Digital Computer
  1939   Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain)
  1940   Color Television
  1940   1st black general in US army
1941-1945 Manhattan Project
  1942   Nuclear Reactor
  1942   Magnetic Recording Tape
  1945   Hypertext
  1945   United Nations formed
  1945   US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1945-1952 Harry S Truman president of US

No death date, so the timeline is showing 100 years or until current year by default.