Events in Squire Fishburn’s life and world events. Born during the Civil War, Squire, though he never served, would live through two World Wars and the Korean War.
Squire Fishburn
1862
Squire Fishburn is born.
1866
Birth of Brother Samuel Babbs Fishburn.
1898
Death of Mother Matilda E Babbs.
1900
Squire marries Margaret B Parlet.
1902
Birth of son Walter Fishburn.
1903
Death of wife Maggie Parlet.
1906
Marries Lucricia Mae Flemming.
1910
Birth of daughter Matillda “Tillie”
Fishburn.
1913
Birth of Daughter Mary Eldora Fishburn.
1919
Birth of daughter Flaudean Fishburn.
1945
Death of sister Rhoda Fishburn.
1955
Death of Squire Fishburn.
World Events
1862
USS Monitor and CSS Merrimack battle in Hampton Roads.
First pasteurization test completed by Frenchmen Louis Pasteur.
Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carrol) creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice Liddell on a family boat trip.
1866
Jessie James holds up his first bank.
American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms.
Charles E. Hires invents “Hires Root Beer”.
1898
Theodore Rossevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill.
Rudolph Diesel of Germany obtains patent #608,845 for his internal combustion engine, later known as the diesel engine.
Cheer leading begins in the United States as Johnny Campbell leads the crowd cheering on the football team at the University of Minnesota.
1900
1st night baseball, league game (Zanesville at Grand Rapids).
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company founded.
1902
New York state assemblyman Francis G. Landon gets a bill passed to criminalize men turning around on a street and “looking at a woman in that way”
Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund forms with $10 million.
Pierre and Marie Curie isolate the radioactive compound radium chloride.
1903
1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom.
First Baseball World Series game ever played.
The Wright brothers make the 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight at 10:35 AM, piloted by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1906
World’s 1st animated cartoon is released, “Humorous Phases of Funny Faces” by J. Stuart Blackton.
San Francisco earthquake and fire kills nearly 4,000 while destroying 75% of the city.
1910
Typhod Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her first periods of forced isolation and goes on to cause several further outbreaks of typhoid in the New York area.
President Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day.
Japan annexes Korea after 5 years as a protectorate.
1913
NY Armory Show introduces Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp to US public.
Skyscraper, the Woolworth Building in New York City is opened.
British suffragette Emmiline Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail.
1919
The 18th Amendment to the US Constitution, authorizing the prohibition of alcohol, is ratified by a majority of US states.
Fascist Party formed in Italy by Benito Mussolini.
Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, that when light passes a large body, gravity will bend the rays confirmed.
1945
Franklin D Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as US President.
Unconditional German surrender to the Allies signed by General Alfred Jodl at Rheims.
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the US B-29 Superfortress “Enola Gay”.
1955
Marian Anderson becomes the 1st African American to perform with the New York Metropolitan Opera.
Elvis Presley makes his 1st TV appearance on a broadcast of radio show “Louisiana Hayride”.
Polio vaccine tested by Jonas Salk announced to be ‘safe and effective’ and is given full approval by the US Food and Drug Administration