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1879
- August 5: Fred Eicher Stokey is born at 11:00 am at 111 East Third Street, Canton Ohio. Papa Charles reports:"Clear, moderately warm day."
- July: Fred rides his bicycle from Canton to visit his older brother Will at West Point.
- April: Fred enlists in the Army for the Spanish-American War
- August: In Montauk, New York, back from Havana Harbor, Fred gets a month's sick leave
- November 21: Fred's company is mustered out of service.
- April: Fred joins the League of American Wheelmen, a biking club
- Fred is working in a watchmaking factory. This started several years earlier, but I don't know when.
- August: Fred helps his father with an experiment to be used in a lecture, involving big knitting needles.
- December: Fred comes out the other end of some personal crisis.
- September: Fred moves from Canton to Oberlin, along with his mother and his sister Eva, and starts at Oberlin College.
- August: Fred, Will, Alma, and Eva go on a camping trip together in northern Ohio.
- This is probably the year that Fred started medical school in Battle Creek, Michigan.
- Spring: Fred becomes engaged to Mabel Woodside.
- December 29, 1909 to January 2, 1910: Fred attends a convention of aspiring missionaries in Rochester, New York, according to the Chicago Tribune.
- Fred goes to Angola as a medical missionary, and marries Mabel.
- Mabel, ill with tuberculosis, returns to the US with her mother, leaving Fred behind in Angola.
- January 15: Fred arrives back in the US, joining Mabel.
- April: Fred and Alma attend an Oberlin alumni gathering in Boston.
- Early April: Fred is in Philadelphia, visiting Eva.
- 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.
- December: Will can't get leave for Christmas because of World War I, all five of the siblings, including Fred, celebrate at Will's and Kathleen's house in Cincinnati.
- Fall: Fred, working at the Boston Homeopathic Hospital, deals with the post-World-War-I influenza epidemic.
- April: Fred helps Alma to get a pair of REALLY COMFORTABLE SHOES.
- September: Fred, Alma, and Eva visit the site of the future Fernbank in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
- June: Fred visits his late wife's parents in Florida.
- September Fred heads back to Angola for more medical missionary work.
- December: Fred starts taking an active interest in Nurse Sibyl Hosking, in Angola.
- Spring: Fred and Sibyl become engaged, and plan a December wedding.
- October: Fred and Sibyl hear from the Mission Board that things are complicated. The December wedding is delayed.
- May: Fred and Sibyl finally get married.
- Summer: Fred and Sibyl go to South Africa, then England, then, in the fall, back to America.
- Fred starts working at the Westboro Hospital. Or else he got the job in 1928.
- Fred accidentally eats some poisonous mushrooms. Full recovery.
- Fred and Sibyl apparently visited Fernbank briefly, maybe in August.
- Fred and Sibyl go down to Florida to see Mabel's parents, and on the way back drive Will's four children up to Woods Hole. Apparently Fred and Sibyl stay for the summer.
- Fred is let go from the Westboro Hospital. (I'm not sure exactly when this happened, but it appears to be in 1935.)
- While Sibyl gets a nursing job in Canada, Fred stays at Fernbank and writes an application for a patent for a telescopic rifle sight.
- Summer: Fred must go up to Canada to visit Sibyl sometime around July.
- April: Fred's and Sibyl's daughter Alma Grace is born.
- September: Fred spends a few days in Woods Hole with the Atlanta Stokeys and Eva.
- Fall: Fred's patent is approved.
- Fred's wife Sibyl becomes ill with peritonitis in January, and eventually dies in November.
- Fred gets a gaugemaker job at the Springfield Armory.
- AG spends June and July (roughly) with her Hosking grandparents in Ontario, and then goes to Fernbank. Fred spends occasional weekends at Fernbank.
- AG is at Little Sirecho camp.
- Occasional summer visits to Fernbank. AG is at Little Sirecho camp.
- January: Will's younger daughter Kathleen is married in Cambridge. Fred, Alma, Laura, and Eva attend.
- July 14: Fred dies.
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