1883                 Documents in Year 1884                      1885


Document

Person

State

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1832-1915

 Congressman
Jeremiah Vardaman Cockrell
Civil War Veteran - Confederate

52 years old - Texas

Photos
1834-1915

Senator Francis Marion Cockrell
Civil War Veteran - Confederate

50 years old - Missouri

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1838-1923

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

46 years old - Missouri

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1846-1921

Cornelia F. Gaines Vardiman
(Wife of John Thomas)

38 years old - Missouri

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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")

23 years old - Mississippi

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1867-1956

Ernest Johnson Vardiman
(son of John Thomas)

17 years old - Missouri

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1869-1945

John Peter Vardiman
(son of John Thomas)

15 years old - Missouri

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1871-1949

Richard Henry Vardiman
(son of John Thomas)

13 years old - Missouri

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1872-1966

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

12 years old - Illinois

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1873-1959

Jeremiah "Jerry" Vardiman
(son of John Thomas)

11 years old - Missouri

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1875-1945

Hiram Botts Vardiman
(son of John Thomas)

9 years old - Missouri

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1878-1952

Grace Truman Vardiman
(daughter of John Thomas)

6 years old - Missouri

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1880-1949

Miles Standish Vardiman
(son of John Thomas & brother of John Peter, Jerry & Hiram)

4 years old - Missouri

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1882-1958

Bonnie Stanley Vardiman
(daughter of John Thomas)

2 years old - Missouri

Links of Interest:

  • Chester Alan Arthur, Twenty-first U.S. President

  • (1881-1885)


  • Education: Child Study Movement
    "during the first two decades of the 20th century...(the Child Study Movement) began with G. Stanley Hall... (who) established a center for applied psychology at John Hopkins University in 1884... (and) brought together the first group of scholars interested in the scientific study of the child through observation of children at various stages of development."

    Source: Foundations of American Education, Sixth Edition page 161 / L. Dean Webb, Arlene Metha. Published by Pearson Education. 2010 see 1885 for next event...

  • Literature: Mark Twain publishes Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1884.

  • Native Americans 1881-86:

  • War between U.S. and Apaches (Great Plains)
    Viola, Herman I, North American Indians, Crown Publishers, New York: New York, 1996

  • Technology:
  • Washington Monument's Aluminum Cap

    William Frishmuth, who was the sole aluminum supplier in the United States built the Washington Monument's aluminum cap in 1884.

    Brooklyn Bridge

    After one year of the Brooklyn Bridge being opened P.T. Barnum had a herd of circus elephants cross the bridge for a publicity stunt and declared, "it is now safe."
    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.

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