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1060
Halsey Haines Cheney 8 [m]
8th Generation

Personal Details
Born June 2nd, 1864 No Image On File
Birthplace Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Parents
Father [675]George Wells Cheney 7 No Image On File
Mother [675sa]Amelia Porter (Haines) Cheney 7 No Image On File

Spouses, Mates & Children
Wife #1
[1060sa] - Alma Streit (Raub) Cheney 8

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Married at: Poughkeepsie, New York, USA

Children by this spouse:
No Records of Children
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Immediate Family Tree
Gen. 8 Gen. 7 Gen. 6 Gen. 5 Gen. 4
Halsey Haines CheneyGeorge Wells CheneyHalsey CheneyTimothy Cheney? Cheney
? (?) Cheney
Rhoda (Skinner) Cheney? Skinner
? (?) Skinner
Adaline Pamelia (Blish) CheneyDeacon Thomas Blish, (***)David Blish, (***)
Zeruiah (Skinner) Blish
Prudence (Hubbard) BlishElizur Hubbard
Abigail (Hollister) Hubbard
Amelia Porter (Haines) CheneyDaniel Haines, Jr.No EntryNo Entry
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Lucy Woodruff (Tarbox) Haines? TarboxNo Entry
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? (?) TarboxNo Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1864 to 1964
1837-1901:
Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 37
1857-1866:
Transatlantic cable laid from before birth until age 2
1861-1865:
Abraham Lincoln president of US from before birth until age 1
1861-1865:
Confederate States of America Exist from before birth until age 1
1861-1865:
Civil War from before birth until age 1
1863-1879:
4th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 15
1864:
Louisiana organized as a territory at age 0
1864:
Nevada enters the union - 36th at age 0
1865:
President Lincoln assassinated at age 1
1865:
Lister invents Disinfection at age 1
1865:
Ku Klux Klan founded at age 1
1866:
Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts) at age 2
1866-1868:
Andrew Johnson president of US from age 2 to age 4
1867:
Diamonds discovered in South Africa at age 3
1867:
Alaska purchased from Russia at age 3
1867:
Nebraska enters the union - 37th at age 3
1867:
Dynamite at age 3
1867:
Confederation of Canada at age 3
1868-1878:
War between Cuba and Spain from age 4 to age 14
1869:
Suez canal opened at age 5
1869:
Trans-continental railroad completed at age 5
1869-1876:
Ulysses S Grant president of US from age 5 to age 12
1869:
Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold at age 5
1869:
Cutty Sark built at age 5
1870-1871:
Franco-Prussian war from age 6 to age 7
1870:
1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) at age 6
1870:
US black men can vote at age 6
1871:
Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 7
1873:
Color Photographs at age 9
1873-1878:
Depression, banks fail from age 9 to age 14
1876:
Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 12
1876:
Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 12
1876:
American Centennial at age 12
1876:
Little Big Horn - Battle at age 12
1877:
Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 13
1877-1880:
Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 13 to age 16
1878:
1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 14
1879:
Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 15
1879:
Zulu war at age 15
1881-1885:
Chester Arthur president of US from age 17 to age 21
1881:
James A Garfield president of US at age 17
1881-1896:
5th Cholera pandemic from age 17 to age 32
1881:
President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 17
1884:
Motorcycle at age 20
1884:
1st subway at age 20
1885-1888:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 21 to age 24
1885:
Automobile at age 21
1886:
Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 22
1887:
X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 23
1888:
Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 24
1888:
70...77 rpm musical records at age 24
1889:
North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 25
1889:
South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 25
1889:
Montana enters the union - 41st at age 25
1889:
Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 25
1889:
Holerith invents the punch card at age 25
1889-1892:
Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 25 to age 28
1890:
Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 26
1890:
Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 26
1890:
Battle of Wounded Knee at age 26
1890:
Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 26
1891:
Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 27
1893:
Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 29
1893:
Movies at age 29
1893:
New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 29
1893-1896:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 29 to age 32
1893-1897:
US Financial panic, depression from age 29 to age 33
1894:
Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 30
1894-1895:
Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 30 to age 31
1896:
Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 32
1896:
Utah enters the union - 45th at age 32
1897-1901:
William McKinley president of US from age 33 to age 37
1898:
Spanish American 1-year war at age 34
1899-1902:
Boer war from age 35 to age 38
1899-1923:
6th Cholera pandemic from age 35 to age 59
1900:
Boxer rebellion in China at age 36
1900:
Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 36
1900:
Hawaii organized as a territory at age 36
1901-1910:
Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 37 to age 46
1901:
Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 37
1901:
First British submarine launched at age 37
1901:
Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 37
1901-1908:
Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 37 to age 44
1901:
Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 37
1901:
US President William McKinley assassinated at age 37
1901:
Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 37
1903:
Airplane at age 39
1903:
Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 39
1904-1905:
Russian-Japanese war from age 40 to age 41
1904:
Radar at age 40
1907:
Plastic at age 43
1907:
Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 43
1908:
Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 44
1909:
North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 45
1909-1912:
William Howard Taft president of US from age 45 to age 48
1909:
Union of South Africa formed at age 45
1910:
Halley's Comet at age 46
1910:
Japan annexes Korea at age 46
1910-1936:
Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 46 to age 72
1911:
South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 47
1912:
Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 48
1912:
New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 48
1912:
Alaska organized as a territory at age 48
1912:
Titanic sinks at age 48
1913-1920:
Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 49 to age 56
1914:
The Bra at age 50
1914-1919:
World War I from age 50 to age 55
1915:
Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 51
1916:
Sonar at age 52
1916:
Irish Easter Rebellion at age 52
1917:
US enters WWI at age 53
1917:
Russian revolution at age 53
1918-1920:
Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 54 to age 56
1918-1933:
Prohibition from age 54 to age 69
1919:
League of Nations instantiated at age 55
1919:
Shortwave Radio at age 55
1920-1929:
Roaring 20's from age 56 to age 65
1920:
Women receive right to vote in USA at age 56
1920:
Palestine established at age 56
1921-1924:
Warren G Harding president of US from age 57 to age 60
1922:
Insulin made available to diabetics at age 58
1925:
Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 61
1925-1928:
Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 61 to age 64
1926:
Sound in Movies at age 62
1927:
Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 63
1927:
1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 63
1928:
Video Recordings at age 64
1928:
Television at age 64
1928:
Geiger Counter at age 64
1928:
Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 64
1929-1932:
Herbert Hoover president of US from age 65 to age 68
1929-1939:
Great Depression from age 65 to age 75
1929:
Stock Market Crash at age 65
1930:
Pluto Discovered at age 66
1931-1933:
Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 67 to age 69
1933:
Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 69
1933:
Soviet communist party purge at age 69
1933-1945:
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 69 to age 81
1933:
Radio Astronomy at age 69
1934:
Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 70
1935:
Dustbowl at age 71
1935-1936:
Abyssinian war from age 71 to age 72
1936-1952:
Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 72 to age 88
1936:
Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 72
1936:
Helicopter at age 72
1936:
Spanish Civil War at age 72
1937:
Nylon (by DuPont) at age 73
1937-1945:
Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 73 to age 81
1938:
Germany annexes Austria at age 74
1939-1945:
World War II from age 75 to age 81
1939:
Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 75
1939:
Digital Computer at age 75
1940:
Color Television at age 76
1940:
1st black general in US army at age 76
1941-1945:
Manhattan Project from age 77 to age 81
1942:
Magnetic Recording Tape at age 78
1942:
Nuclear Reactor at age 78
1945:
US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 81
1945:
United Nations formed at age 81
1945:
Hypertext at age 81
1945-1952:
Harry S Truman president of US from age 81 to age 88
1946:
The Bikini at age 82
1946-1989:
The Cold War from age 82 until after line end
1947:
Transistor at age 83
1947:
UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 83
1947:
India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 83
1948:
NATO formed at age 84
1948:
33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 84
1948:
Israel inaugurated as state at age 84
1948:
Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 84
1949:
45 rpm musical recordings at age 85
1949:
Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 85
1949:
Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 85
1950:
Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 86
1950:
World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 86
1950-1954:
McCarthyism from age 86 to age 90
1950-1953:
Korean War from age 86 to age 89
1951:
Electricity from Atomic Power at age 87
1952-2050:
Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 88 until after line end
1952:
1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 88
1953-1960:
Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 89 to age 96
1954:
Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 90
1955:
Invention of Velcro at age 91
1955:
Warsaw pact formed at age 91
1955:
Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 91
1955:
Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 91
1956:
Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 92
1957:
Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 93
1958:
US space agency (NASA) established at age 94
1958:
FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 94
1958:
Integrated Circuit at age 94
1958:
Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 94
1959:
Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 95
1959:
Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 95
1959:
1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 95
1960:
World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 96
1960:
Pantyhose at age 96
1960:
1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 96
1960:
Laser at age 96
1961:
1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 97
1961-1970:
7th Cholera pandemic from age 97 until after line end
1961:
First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 97
1961-1963:
John F Kennedy president of US from age 97 to age 99
1962:
Cuban missile crisis at age 98
1962-1965:
Vatican II from age 98 until after line end
1963:
1st artificial heart at age 99
1963-1968:
Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 99 until after line end
1963:
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 99
1963:
Compact Cassette Recordings at age 99
1964:
US civil rights bill at age 100
1964-1975:
Vietnam War from age 100 until after line end

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