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War: Revolutionary War
The Revolutionary war was between Great Britain and the 13 American colonies. -
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Nathan Regennitter's Family Timeline 1775-1920
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*Military Service: George Ewing Sr.*
George Ewing served in the military in November 1777 in New Jersey when he was 23 years old. He was in the Revolutionary War. (George Ewing is Nathan's 6th Great Grandfather) -
*Setters - William Wells Welch Settles in Elgin, IL*
1833 William Wells Welch was one of the first settlers in Kane County, near Elgin, IL. William was born in 1777 in Dublin, Ireland. Nathan's 5th Great Grandfather) -
War: Civil War
The Civil War in the United States began in 1861. The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 caused seven southern states to secede and form the Confederate States of America; four more states soon joined them. The conflict was the costliest and deadliest war ever fought on American soil, with some 620,000 of 2.4 million soldiers killed, millions more injured and much of the South left in ruins.[Source History.com] -
*Military: David Wilson Welch & Thomas Baird Douglass*
David Wilson Welch was in the American Civil War 1862-1865 (David was Nathan's 3rd great grandfather). Side Served:Union /State Served:Ohio Civil War 1862: Thomas Baird Douglass - born in Scotland (Nathan's 4th Great Uncle) -
Event: Transcontinental Railroad Constructed
The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,912-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay. [Source History.com] -
*Political: Thomas Nelson Welch*
In 1870, Thomas Nelson Welch may have witnessed or experienced political discrimination while living in Clinton, Iowa after ratification of the 15th Amendment. When future U.S. presidential hopeful Abraham Lincoln was debating his way through Illinois, it's likely that Thomas Nelson Welch was living in the state. Thomas Nelson Welch was born in Illinois in 1839 and died in 1907 in Canada (Nathan's 3rd great grandfather). -
Political: 15th Amendment Ratified
The 15th Amendment outlawed racial discrimination at the election polls, but white leaders in the South ignored the Constitution. -
Event: The Great Chicago Fire
The Great Chicago Fire burned from Sunday, October 8, to Tuesday, October 10, 1871. The fire killed up to 300 people, and left more than 100,000 homeless. -
*Immigration: Carl John Gustafson*
Carl John Gustafson was born on December 17, 1860 in Skaraborg's Lan, Vastergotland, Sweden. He emigrated to the US at the age of 21, arriving in America on November 26, 1882. He stayed first at Rockford, IL where he was employed in a furniture factory. After a short time there, he went to Alta, Iowa where he worked as a carpenter & helped build many of the churches in that area. Later he moved to Laurens, IA where he was a farmer for many years. (Nathan's 3rd great grandpa) -
*Battle: Sioux Indians: James Douglass*
James Douglass drove an ammunition wagon for the troops of H Company to the site of Wounded Knee in 1890. Jim fought with Custer at Little Big Horn. (Nathan's Great Great Great Uncle) -
*Social Event: Wedding of Joseph Frank Kadlec and Anna Lesina*
Joseph Frank Kadlec was born on July 21, 1873, in Bohemia. He married Anna (Lenstina) 18 Sept 1894. (Nathan's Great Great Grandpa) -
*Military Service: Alexander Douglass*
Alexander Douglass 1898-1899 was in the Spanish-American War and served US and Cuba. Nathan's Great Great Great Uncle -
War: Spanish-American War
The Spanish–American War was fought between the United States and Spain. -
Political: Queen Victoria Dies
The death of Queen Victoria on January 22, 1901, ends an era in which most of her British subjects know no other monarch. Her 63-year reign, the longest in British history, saw the growth of an empire on which the sun never set. Victoria restored dignity to the English monarchy and ensured its survival as a ceremonial political institution.Source History.com -
*Immigration: Axel Ivar Dahlström*
Axel Ivar Dahlström arrives at Ellis Island in 1905. (Nathan's Great Great Grandfather) By 1890 the U.S. census reported a Swedish-American population of nearly 800,000, with immigration peaking in 1869 and again in 1887. Most of this influx settled in the North. The great majority of them had been peasants in the old country, pushed away from Sweden by disastrous crop failures and pulled towards America by the cheap land resulting from the 1862 Homestead Act. -
*Labor - Railway Trolleys: Fred and Ivan Welch*
Fred & Ivan Welch. The Welch brothers worked for the railroad in Waterloo, Iowa. Fredrick was born in Iowa in 1885 and died in 1908.
His brother Ivan was born in Iowa in 1887 and died in 1929. They were Nathan's great great uncles. -
*Labor: Farming -Charles Welch*
Charles Henry Welch was born on July 1, 1864, in Giard, Iowa.
(Nathan's Great Great Grandfather)
