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...Nitrous oxide was reintroduced as an anesthetic agent by Gardner Q. Colton in the 1860s. It was not "forgotten until...
...1860s, where the Wolf and the Obey Rivers run together to make the Cumberland, Billy Hull moved with his bride." (TIME...
...1860s, where the Wolf and the Obey (pronounced obee) Rivers run together to make the Cumberland, Billy Hull moved with his bride, a Virginia girl named Elizabeth Riley, whose family had some Cherokee blood. Billy walked with a sidewise slouch. Even after he was rich he was "an ornery-dressin' fella." He often went to Nashville "wearin' no more than five dollars worth of clothes." Elizabeth was tall, dark, sweet-eyed. Their first home was a sheephouse; their first furniture some chestnut stumps for table and chairs; their first bed Elizabeth's riding-skirt filled with rushes...
...1860s August Thyssen (pronounced tissen) started his steel business in a cow house outside Mulheim, in the Ruhr Valley, making hoop-iron at first. In 50 years he came to own coal fields in the Ruhr and iron-ore concessions in Lorraine and Northern France, and to employ 25,000 workers. When he died in 1926 at 84 he left an estate worth more than...
...TIME is happy to introduce Shera Anne Hardy to the Reverend James Shera Montgomery. Although neither of them knew it, her great-grandfather, James Wills Shera, was godfather to House Chaplain Montgomery. Great-grandfather Shera was a parishioner of Father Montgomery in Frankfort County, Ind. in the 1860s...