1910-1919: THE TIMELINE---~INTRODUCTION~---timeline---related pages---site navigation
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1910-1919: THE TIMELINE---introduction---~TIMELINE~---related pages---site navigation
1910
- December 29, 1909 to January 2, 1910: Fred attends a convention of aspiring missionaries in Rochester, New York, according to the Chicago Tribune.
- January: Will, is re-assigned by the Army from Savannah, Georgia to San Francisco, California.
- January 6: Announcement that Laura has passed the Ohio state osteopath exams.
- Spring: Kathleen and her mother and her sister Ruth move to Savannah, Georgia, joining her father, who is already there.
- Summer: Alma goes to England for a science conference, and gets some unexpected recognition for her work. Mama Margaret goes to Ohio to stay with Laura.
- August: Will is sent temporarily to Los Angeles, and meets Sarah Margaret Clarke, known as Margaret.
- Fall: Mabel goes to Portugal for Portuguese language lessons, and then on to Angola (Portuguese West Africa) to be a medical missionary. Kathleen starts teaching for a year at the Savannah-Lind Preparatory school.
- October: Will tells his mother that he is engaged to Margaret Clarke.
- November: Papa Charles steps down from his position of Canton weather observer for the federal government.
- November 24: Will and Margaret are at Ye Alpine Tavern in Mount Lowe, California, for Thanksgiving.
- December: Will goes back to San Francisco, and is stationed there until 1913.
- March 22: Will marries Margaret Clarke in San Francisco. Alma has a party in Massachusetts on the same day to celebrate.
- Spring: Marital troubles for Frank and Eva, papered over.
- Fred goes to Angola as a medical missionary, with time on the way in Portugal for Portuguese language instruction.
- Fall: Eva gets a job teaching music in Philadelphia and moves there, away from Frank.
- November 8: Will's wife Margaret dies the day after giving to birth to a daughter, Margaret, later called Maggie.
- February: Mama Margaret comes west from Massachusetts by train to take care of Will's motherless baby Maggie.
- April: Will is assigned to the Washington DC barracks.
- April or May: Mama Margaret takes the train back east with baby Maggie.
- May 30: Fred and Mabel are married in Angola.
- July: Will assists at the 50th Gettysburg Reunion in Pennsylvania.
- Fall: Mama Margaret lives in Washington DC with Will and baby Maggie.
- Mabel, ill with tuberculosis, returns to the US with her mother, leaving Fred behind in Angola.
- Summer: Alma is in Woods Hole doing research.
- February 28: Will is promoted from captain to major.
- March: Will is re-assigned from Washington DC to Savannah, Georgia. Mama Margaret and baby Maggie go with him, of course.
- June: Laura moves her office from 403 Tuscarawas street, W., (where Papa Charles was living in 1912, and may still be living for all I know) to 210 High avenue, N. W., in Canton.
- Summer: Alma and her mother go to California. Alma attends a science conference, and both Mama Margaret and Alma got to the Panama-Pacific Exposition. Also they visit Provines relatives. Meanwhile, back in Savannah, Eva comes from Philadelphia to take care of Maggie and encourages Will to take an interest in the Farmer sisters at the local Christian Science church, and Will buys his first car, a Buick.
- Christmas: Alma visits Mabel and Lil in Philadelphia, and then goes to Columbus, Ohio, with Anne Starr for the founding of the American Ecological Society. Eva goes to Savannah for Christmas with Will, Maggie, and Mama Margaret.
- Alma gets tenure at Mount Holyoke College sometime during the year.
- January 5: Papa Charles dies. Laura holds a funeral for him in her home.
- January 15: Fred arrives back in the US, joining Mabel.
- June: Will is notified that he is being reassigned from Savannah, Georgia to Cincinnati, Ohio and immediately proposes to Kathleen Farmer. They are married on June 22, and drive up to Cincinnati in Will's Buick.
- July and/or August: Alma visits Will, Kathleen, and Margaret in Cincinnati.
- November: Mama Margaret goes to visit Will, Kathleen, and little Margaret in Cincinnati.
- December: Will, Kathleen, and Maggie go back to Savannah for Christmas with Kathleen's family.
- Early April: Fred is in Philadelphia, visiting Eva. Mabel may also have visited Eva.
- April 19: Will's first son, Billy, is born. Both grandmothers are there to help.
- May 6: Mabel dies of tuberculosis.
- June: Fred travels to Ohio, visiting Oberlin College, Will and Kathleen and his mother in Cincinnati, and Laura in Canton.
- Summer: Alma is in Woods Hole, and also keeping an eye on newly widowed Fred in Boston.
- August 5: Will receives a wartime temporary promotion from major to lieutenant-colonel.
- December: Will can't get leave for Christmas because of World War I, so Mama Margaret and all four of Will's siblings come to Cincinnati for Christmas.
- January 4, 1918: Will receives a wartime temporary promotion from his wartime temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel to full colonel.
- February: Captain Frank Evans marries Dora Bradshaw. Not that the Stokeys care.
- Spring: Mama Margaret visits Laura in Canton, and tells Eva: "She is not real well yet."
- April: Will is assigned to San Antonio, Texas. Kathleen follows with Maggie and Billy.
- Fall: Fred, working at the Boston Homeopathic Hospital, deals with the post-World-War-I influenza epidemic.
- November 28: Thanksgiving: Alma, Fred, Anne Starr, Clara Jones, and friends are in South Hadley. It looks as though Mama Margaret was in Philadelphia with Eva.
- December 13: Will's second daughter is born: Kathleen, later known as Kay.
- January: Mama Margaret goes down to Texas to visit Will, Kathleen, Maggie, Billy, and her latest granddaughter, Kathleen/Kay.
- June: Will is assigned back to Cincinnati, Ohio.
- July 4: Will returns to his pre-war rank of major from his wartime rank of colonel.
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