This is the last generation where everyone is present and accounted for. There are German immigrants, people born in Vermont, Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio and New Jersey. While everyone is on the move westward, 23 of the 32 make it into Illinois and a 8 into Wayne County. Some overshoot Illinois ending up in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. The generation spans 137 years from 1788 to 1925.
- 1788 George Washington president
- 1788 states Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia & New York join union
- 1789 North Carolina becomes 12th state
- 1790 first U.S. census
- 1791 Bill of Rights ratified; Vermont becomes a state
- 1792 Kentucky county of Virginia becomes the commonwealth of Kentucky
- 1793 influenza, typhus & yellow fever outbreaks
- 1794 Whiskey Rebellions
- 1796 public lands available for sale $2 per acre, minimum purchase is 640 acres
- 1797 John Adams president
- 1798 muskets with interchangeable parts invented
- 1800 Thomas Jefferson elected president; public land still $2 per acre, minimum purchase dropped to 320 acres
- 1802 West Point opens
- 1803 Louisiana Purchase; Ohio carved out of the Northwest Territory
- 1804 Lewis & Clark expedition leaves St. Louis; minimum purchase of public land is now 160 acres
- 1807 Robert Fulton builds first steamboat
- 1809 James Madison president
- 1812 War of 1812
- 1815 Great September Gale, hurricane hits New England
- 1816 the year without summer, crops fail in New England; Indiana made a state
- 1817 James Monroe president
- 1818 Illinois becomes a state
- 1820 Missouri Compromise; public land price dropped to $1.25/acre and minimum purchase is 80 acres
- 1821 Missouri made a state
- 1825 Erie Canal completed; John Quincy Adams president
- 1826 U.S. celebrates 50th anniversary
- 1829 Andrew Jackson president
- 1830 Indian Removal Act; smallpox & cholera outbreaks
- 1831 McCormick's reaper invented
- 1832 Black Hawk War in Illinois
- 1837 financial panic; Martin Van Buren president
- 1841 William Henry Harrison president for 1 month; probable cousin John Tyler becomes president
- 1845 James Polk president
- 1846 Mexican-American War
- 1848 California gold rush
- 1849 Zachary Taylor president
- 1850 Compromise of 1850 pushes Civil War back 10 years; Millard Fillmore president
- 1853 Franklin Pierce president
- 1857 financial panic; James Buchanan president
- 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates in Illinois
- 1859 John Brown raids Harper Ferry
- 1860 Abraham Lincoln elected
- 1861 Civil War begins with attack on Fort Sumter; Kansas becomes a state
- 1865 Civil War ends; Lincoln assassinated; Andrew Johnson becomes president
- 1867 barbed wire patented
- 1868 cousin Ulysses Grant elected president
- 1869 transcontinental railroad completed
- 1871 Chicago fire
- 1872 Montgomery Ward department store founded
- 1873 financial panic; locusts in Kansas
- 1876 U.S. centennial
- 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes president
- 1881 President James Garfield assassinated, Chester Arthur becomes president
- 1883 time zones created by railroads
- 1885 Grover Cleveland's 1st presidential term
- 1889 Benjamin Harrison president
- 1893 Grover Cleveland's 2nd presidential term
- 1897 William McKinley president
- 1898 Spanish American War
- 1889 Oklahoma land rush
- 1901 President McKinley assassinated; Teddy Roosevelt becomes president
- 1907 Oklahoma made a state
- 1909 William Howard Taft president
- 1912 Woodrow Wilson elected president
- 1913 Henry Ford creates assembly line automobile production
- 1917 U.S. enters World War I
- 1920 19th amendment gives women the vote
- 1921 Warren Harding president
- 1923 Calvin Coolidge president
- 1925 Tri-State Tornado hits White County, Illinois
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