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William Sprowl Hestand

27 Oct 1831 - 1 Mar 1904

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William Sprowl Hestand

27 Oct 1831 - 1 Mar 1904

The burial record of William Sprowl Hestand. Cemetery: Willow Point Cemetery, Location: Bridgeport, Wise, Texas, United States. Birth: 27 Oct 1831, Death: 1 Mar 1904.

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William Sprowl Hestand

Born: 27 Oct 1831

Died: 1 Mar 1904

Willow Point Cemetery

County Road 3706

Bridgeport, Wise, Texas

United States

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Cemetery: WILLOW POINT CEMETERY
Address: BRIDGEPORT, TX 76426

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William Sprowl Hestand was born on 27 Oct 1831

William Sprowl Hestand was 9 years old when Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph. Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American painter and inventor. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer of the Morse code and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy.

William Sprowl Hestand was 28 years old when Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species. Charles Robert Darwin, was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors and, in a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace, introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding.

William Sprowl Hestand was 29 years old when Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th President of United States. Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through the American Civil War—its bloodiest war and perhaps its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.

William Sprowl Hestand was 48 years old when Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park", he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.

William Sprowl Hestand was 50 years old when The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States. A telephone call is a connection over a telephone network between the called party and the calling party.

William Sprowl Hestand was 64 years old when George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 1952) George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was the last Emperor of India and the first Head of the Commonwealth.

William Sprowl Hestand died on 1 Mar 1904 at the age of 72

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