Abraham Douglas SwegleAge: 71 years1866–1937
- Name
- Abraham Douglas Swegle
- Given names
- Abraham Douglas
- Surname
- Swegle
 Birth | February 14, 1866 |
 Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 10 months)Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic 1867 (Age 10 months)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 2 years)Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 11 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Religious marriage | Effie May Higgerson — View this family October 19, 1893 (Age 27 years) |
 Birth of a son#1 | Elmer L Swegle August 30, 1894 (Age 28 years) |
| Birth of a son #2 | Earl D Swegle 1897 (Age 30 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 32 years)Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War |
| Birth of a daughter #3 | Mary M Swegle 1901 (Age 34 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #4 | Mildred Frances Swegle 1905 (Age 38 years) |
 Census | April 25, 1910 (Age 44 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 49 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 50 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 51 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
| Census | January 2, 1920 (Age 53 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 63 years)Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression |
| Census | April 2, 1930 (Age 64 years) |
 Death | February 15, 1937 (Age 71 years) Cause of death: Uremia |
| Family with Effie May Higgerson |
| himself |
Abraham Douglas Swegle Birth: February 14, 1866 — Illinois, United States Death: February 15, 1937 — Sedalia, Pettis, Missouri, United States |
| wife |
Effie May Higgerson Birth: December 18, 1865 30 26 — Cooper, Missouri, United States Death: November 10, 1951 — Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States |
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Marriage: October 19, 1893 — Lamine, Cooper, Missouri, United States |
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10 months son |
Elmer L Swegle Birth: August 30, 1894 28 28 — Missouri, United States Death: |
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3 years son |
Earl D Swegle Birth: 1897 30 31 — Missouri, United States Death: |
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5 years daughter |
Mary M Swegle Birth: 1901 34 35 — Missouri, United States Death: |
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5 years daughter |
Mildred Frances Swegle Birth: 1905 38 39 — Missouri, United States Death: 2002 |
| Census | 1910 United States - Census transcript - Abraham Douglas Swegle - Household
Sedalia, Pettis, Missouri, United States
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| Census | 1920 United States - Census transcript - Abraham Douglas Swegle - Household
Sedalia, Pettis, Missouri, United States
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| Census | 1930 United States - Census transcript - Abraham Douglas Swegle - Household
Sedalia, Pettis, Missouri, United States
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