≡

Jacob Serrill

9 May 1808 - 9 Sep 1884

Change Your Language

You can change the language of the BillionGraves website by changing the default language of your browser.

Learn More

English

Register

Jacob Serrill

9 May 1808 - 9 Sep 1884

Grave site information of Jacob Serrill (9 May 1808 - 9 Sep 1884) at Darby Friends Burial Ground in Darby, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States from BillionGraves

Life Information

Register to get full access to the grave site record of Jacob Serrill

Terms and Conditions

We want you to know exactly how our service works and why we need your registration in order to allow full access to our records.

I agree to the terms and conditions

Contact Permissions

We’d like to send you special offers and deals exclusive to BillionGraves users to help your family history research. All emails include an unsubscribe link. You may opt-out at any time.

Yes please, I’d like to hear about offers and services

Only notify me of service opportunities in my area and educational emails

No thanks, I don’t want to hear about offers and services

Facebook Login

Sign up the easy way

Use your facebook account to register with BillionGraves. It will be one less password to remember. You can always add an email and password later.

Loading

Life Information

Setting Primary Image

Jacob Serrill

Born: 9 May 1808

Died: 9 Sep 1884

Darby Friends Burial Ground

1205 Main Street

Darby, Delaware, Pennsylvania

United States

Nearby Graves

See more nearby graves

Find more about Jacob...

We found more records about Jacob Serrill.

Grave Site of Jacob

Jacob Serrill is buried in the Darby Friends Burial Ground at the location displayed on the map below. This GPS information is ONLY available at BillionGraves. Our technology can help you find the gravesite and other family members buried nearby.

Cemetery Name

Darby Friends Burial Ground

Cemetery Address

1205 Main Street
Darby,Delaware,Pennsylvania
United States

Download the free BillionGraves mobile app for iPhone and Android before you go to the cemetery and it will guide you right to the gravesite.

android Google play phone_iphone App Store

GET UP TO 40% OFF

Clean Jacob Serrill`s headstone

Life timeline of Jacob Serrill

Jacob Serrill was born on 9 May 1808

Jacob Serrill was 11 years old when Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore. Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles, FRS was a British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of British Java (1811–1815) and Governor-General of Bencoolen (1817–1822), best known for his founding of Singapore and the British Malaya.

Jacob Serrill was 17 years old when The Erie Canal opens: Passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie. The Erie Canal is a canal in New York, United States that is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System. Originally, it ran 363 miles (584 km) from where Albany meets the Hudson River to where Buffalo meets Lake Erie. It was built to create a navigable water route from New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. When completed in 1825, it was the second longest canal in the world and greatly affected the development and economy of New York, New York City, and the United States.

Jacob Serrill was 24 years old when Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate his theory of evolution. 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.

Jacob Serrill was 32 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.

Jacob Serrill was 51 years old when Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well. Petroleum is a naturally occurring, yellow-to-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth's surface. It is commonly refined into various types of fuels. Components of petroleum are separated using a technique called fractional distillation, i.e. separation of a liquid mixture into fractions differing in boiling point by means of distillation, typically using a fractionating column.

Jacob Serrill was 53 years old when American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces. The American Civil War was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. As a result of the long-standing controversy over slavery, war broke out in April 1861, when Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina, shortly after U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated. The nationalists of the Union proclaimed loyalty to the U.S. Constitution. They faced secessionists of the Confederate States, who advocated for states' rights to expand slavery.

Jacob Serrill was 70 years old when Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound. 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.

Jacob Serrill died on 9 Sep 1884 at the age of 76

BillionGraves.com

Grave record for Jacob Serrill (9 May 1808 - 9 Sep 1884), BillionGraves Record 15826059 Darby, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States

Loading