1873                 Documents in Year 1874                      1875


Document

Person

State

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1810-1877

Peter Vardeman II

64 years old - Kentucky

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1815-1879

Mary W. Scrogin Vardeman
(Wife of Peter Vardeman II)

59 years old - Kentucky

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1832-1915

 Jeremiah Vardaman Cockrell
(Future Congressman)
Civil War Veteran - Confederate

42 years old - Texas
Chief Justice of Grayson County

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1834-1915

Senator Francis Marion Cockrell
Civil War Veteran - Confederate

40 years old - Missouri

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1838-1923

John Thomas Vardiman
(son of Peter Vardeman II)
Civil War Veteran - Union

36 years old - Kentucky

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1846-1921

Cornelia F. Gaines Vardiman
(Wife of John Thomas)

28 years old - Kentucky

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1861-1930

Major James Kimble Vardaman
(Future Spanish American War Veteran, Mississippi Senator & Great, Great Grandson of John II Vardeman "the pioneer")

13 years old

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1867-1956

Ernest Johnson Vardiman
(son of John Thomas)

7 years old - Kentucky

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1869-1945

John Peter Vardiman
(son of John Thomas)

5 years old - Kentucky

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1871-1949

Richard Henry Vardiman
(son of John Thomas)

3 years old - Kentucky

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1872-1966

Luella "May" Smith
(future wife of John Peter)

2 years old - Illinois

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1873-1959

Jeremiah "Jerry" Vardiman
(son of John Thomas)

1 year old - Kentucky

Links of Interest:

  • Ulysses S. Grant, Eighteenth U.S. President

  • (1869-1877)

  • Transit of Venus

  • Venus visible between the Earth and Sun. The transit of Venus happens in pairs every 105 years or so. See 1882 for next passing. Source: NASA, Click here for historical Video Clip.

  • Technology:

  • Brooklyn Bridge

    Work continues on towers and anchorages. 5 years down, 9 to go to finish.
    It's magnificent twin towers, breathtaking span, cutting edge technology, and sheer beauty make Brooklyn Bridge the grandest, and perhaps the most important structure built in America during the nineteenth century. It was called "the eighth wonder of the world."
    Curlee, Lynn Brooklyn Bridge New York: Atheneum Books, 2001.

  • The Men Who Built America

  • Eades Bridge (one mile long) is completed linking East St. Louis, Illinois across the Mississippi River to St. Louis, Missouri to extend railroads further west. Carnegie used English inventor Henry Bessemer’s new technology that was able to cut down the time to make a single steel rail from two weeks to 15 minutes. Orders from other railroads that needed to upgrade their infrastructure came pouring in for steel rails but due to the financial panic the year before and many railroads shutting down Carnegie found new customers in building skycrapers in the cities where the population was fleeing to find jobs and needed housing in densely populated areas so he went up.

    Carnegie built a steel empire.

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