1900                 Documents in Year 1901                      1902


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Person

State

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1832-1915

 Jeremiah Vardaman Cockrell
Civil War Veteran - Confederate
Prior Congressman

69 years old - Texas

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1834-1915

Senator Francis Marion Cockrell
Civil War Veteran - Confederate

67 years old - Missouri

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1838-1923

John Thomas Vardiman
Civil War Veteran - Union

63 years old - Missouri

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1846-1921

Cornelia F. Gaines Vardiman
(Wife of John Thomas)

55 years old - Missouri

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1861-1930

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

40 years old - Mississippi

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1867-1956

Ernest Johnson Vardiman
(son of John Thomas)

34 years old - Missouri

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1869-1945

John Peter Vardiman
(son of John Thomas)

32 years old - Missouri

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1871-1949

Richard Henry Vardiman
(son of John Thomas)

30 years old - Missouri

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1872-1966

Luella "May" Smith
(Wife of John Peter)

29 years old - Missouri

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1873-1959

Jeremiah "Jerry" Vardiman
(son of John Thomas)

28 years old - Missouri

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1875-1945

Hiram Botts Vardiman
(son of John Thomas)

26 years old - Missouri

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1878-1952

Grace Truman Vardiman
(daughter of John Thomas)

23 years old - Missouri

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1880-1949

Miles Standish Vardiman
(son of John Thomas)

21 years old - Missouri

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1882-1958

Bonnie Stanley Vardiman
(daughter of John Thomas)

19 years old - Missouri

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1885-1980

Mary "Mollie" Josephine Harris
(future wife of Miles Standish)

16 years old - Missouri

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1885-1964

Margaret May "Maggie" Vardiman
(daughter of John Thomas)

16 years old - Missouri

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1887-1977

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Gaimes Vardiman
(Daughter of John Thomas)

14 years old - Missouri

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1890-1970

Frances Laura "Fannie" Vardiman
(Daughter of John Thomas)

11 years old - Missouri

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1890-1985

Emma Henriette Jensen
(future wife of Charles Henry)

11 years old - Minnesota 

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1893-1972

Captain James K. Vardaman Jr.
(Future Naval Aide to President Truman during WWII & Son of James Kimble Vardaman)

8 years old - Mississippi

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1896-1962

Charles Henry Vardiman
(son of John Peter)

5 years old - Missouri

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1899-1984

John Wesley Vardiman "Johnny"
(son of John Peter)

2 years old - Missouri

1901 Newspaper Clippings

Links of Interest:

  • William McKinley, Twenty-fifth U.S. President

  • (1897-1901) assassinated in September 1901 by a deranged anarchist. Third President to be killed in office.

  • Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth U.S. President

  • (1901-1909)


  • Education: Higher (College)

  • "In 1901 the first free-standing public junior college, Joliet (Illinois) Junior College, was established. By the early 1920s, the concept of the junior college was well established."

    Source: Foundations of American Education, Sixth Edition / L. Dean Webb, Arlene Metha. Published by Pearson Education. 2010 see 1914 for next event...

  • Food:

    At the New York Polo Grounds, a frankfurter served in a heated bun with assorted condiments starts an American passion - nicknamed "hot dogs" in 1906 after Hearst cartoonist Tad Dorgan begins depicting Germans as dachshunds Anderson, Jean American Century Cookbook.

  • Inventions:

  • Fingerprinting

    "The signature that can't be forged."

    Disposable Razor

    Invented by King Gillette who made a non-working prototype with sheet steel. An MIT grad student named William Nickerson figured out a sandwich method using iron on the outside, a layer of copper, then sheet steel in the middle.

  • The Men Who Built America (U.S. Steel and Automobiles)

  • "Andrew Carnegie had built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which he sold to J. P. Morgan in 1901 for $303,450,000. It became the U.S. Steel Corporation. After selling Carnegie Steel, he surpassed John D. Rockefeller (Standard Oil) as the richest American for the next several years. Carnegie devoted the remainder of his life to large-scale philanthropy, with special emphasis on local libraries, world peace, education, and scientific research. With the fortune he made from business, he built Carnegie Hall in New York, NY, and the Peace Palace and founded the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Institution for Science, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, among others."

    Meanwhile, Henry Ford's application to be licensed to sell cars is rejected by A.L.A.M (Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers) who owns the patent on automobiles (virtual monopoly). So, Ford challenges the owner of the biggest car company in the country who is a member of A.L.A.M, Alexander Winton, to a race and wins. As a result of the publicity he attracts investors and is able to build his first factory that eventually produces 15 cars (Model A) per day and priced low enough for the common man. He has to defend himself in court against A.L.A.M. who takes him to court for patent infringement (see 1911).

  • National Parks - John Muir

  • John Muir (1838-1914) was America's most famous and influential naturalist and conservationist. He is one of California's most important historical personalities. He has been called "The Father of our National Parks," "Wilderness Prophet," and "Citizen of the Universe." As early as 1876, he urged the federal government to adopt a forest conservation policy through articles published in popular periodicals. In 1892 he founded the Sierra Club. In 1901, Muir published Our National Parks, the book that brought him to the attention of President Theodore Roosevelt. In 1903, Roosevelt visited Muir in Yosemite. There, together, beneath the trees, they laid the foundation of Roosevelt's innovative and notable conservation programs.

  • Photography:

    Edward S. Curtis

  • (American Photographer of Native Americans 1899-1929)

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