100 year timeline.....

Just a few major events in the lives of some of my direct ancestors:

1840----Charles D Sanders (great grandfather)---born---Broome Co, NJ
1840----Catherine Langan(g-great grandmother)---born---Ireland
1840----Margaret Hunter(g-great grandmother)---born---NY
1845----US-Mexico War
1848----California Gold Rush
1849----Mary T McNally(great grandmother)---born---Carbondale, PA
1850----Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
1851----Herman Melville’s Moby Dick
1852----Margaret Knapp (Dikkenson)(gg-great grandmother)---died
1852----Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
1854----Henry David Thoreau’s Walden
1855----Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
1860----Christopher Kirkhuff(ggg-great grandfather)---died---Monroe Co. PA
1861----US Civil War begins
1863----Charles Kirkhuff(gg-great grandfather)---died---Falls, PA
1863----Emancipation of Slaves
1865----Jesse Saunders(g great grandfather)---died
1865----Lincoln assasinated
1867----Charles D Sanders/Mary McNally---marriage---Marcy, PA
1867----Alaska purchased from Russia
1868----Anna E Kirkhuff(great grandmother)---born---Falls, PA
1868----William H Berge(great grandfather)---born---Scranton, PA
1876----Battle of Little Big Horn
1882----James Hunter(gg great grandfather)---died---PA
1884----Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn
1888----William H Berge/Anna Kirkhuff ---marriage
1890----Florence Ann Berge(grandmother)---born---Scranton, PA
1890----William Lawrence Sanders(grandfather)---born---Avoca, PA
1890----Massacre at Wounded Knee
1893----William H Berge---graduated---College of Physicians & Surgeons--Baltimore, MD
1895---- Eliza Kirkhuff (Weller)(gg great grandmother)---died---Falls, PA
1895----Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage
1896----Catherine Berge (Langan)(g great grandmother)---died---Scranton, PA
1899----William Allen Fulmer(father)---born---Philadelphia, PA
1901----McKinley assassinated
1902----Reuben Kirkhuff(great grandfather)---died---Retreat, PA
1903----Jack London’s Call of the Wild
1903----“The Great Train Robbery”-1st film to tell a story
1912----William L Sanders/Florence Sanders---marriage---Avoca, PA
1913----Marjorie Rose Sanders(mother)---born---Scranton, PA
1914----Charles D Sanders(great grandfather)---died---Avoca, PA
1917----US declares war on Germany
1920----Prohibition begins
1925----F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
1926----Mary T Sanders (McNally)(great grandmother)---died---Avoca, PA
1927----“The Jazz Singer”-first talkie
1929----Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms
1929----Great Depression
1933----Roosevelt’s New Deal
1933----Prohibition ends
1939----John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
1940----William H Berge(great grandfather)---died---Scranton, PA