Timeline: If the Legends Are True...

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> 1792 - Birth: 1 Dec 1792

> 1810 - Married General James Hoge: 5 Jun 1810

> 1811 - Child Daniel Howe Hoge b. 30 Mar 1811

> 1815 - Child Eliza Hoge b. 11 Dec 1815

> 1818 - Child James Fulton Hoge b. 16 Apr 1818

> 1820 - Child Joseph Haven Hoge b. 21 Jan 1820

> 1822 - Child William Edward Hoge, M. D. b. 26 May 1822

> 1856 - Died: 13 Jun 1856

> 1810 - Birth: 15 Dec 1810

> 1840 - Child Mary E. Hoge b. Abt 1840

> 1841 - Married Octavia Mary Browne: 20 Sep 1841

> 1847 - Child George F. Hoge b. Abt 1847

> 1849 - Child Fanny L. Hoge b. Dec 1849

> 1850 - Child Pauline O. Hoge b. Aug 1850

> 1853 - Child Belle Josephine Hoge b. Abt 1853

> 1854 - Child Blanche Hoge b. Abt 1854

> 1859 - Child Charles Joseph Hoge b. Abt Oct 1859

> 1862 - Child Octavia Hoge b. Abt 1862

> 1891 - Died: 14 Aug 1891

	Year	Event(s)
1	1794	14 Mar: Eli Whitney is granted the patent for the cotton gin. At the time the U.S. is producing 187,000 pounds of cotton per year. The same year Samuel Slater opens the country's first textile mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
2	1795	Two years after Eli Whitney's cotten gin is introduced the production of cotton jumps from 187,000 pounds to 6 million pounds.
3	1810	A staggering 93 million pounds of cotton is harvested in the U.S. The slave population of The South has risen to 1.3 million from 657,000 in 1790.
4	1812	12 Jun: America declares war on Britain, beginning the War of 1812 which will end 24 Dec 1814 with The Treaty of Ghent.
5	1814	24 Aug: British General Ross lands about 30 miles from Washington with 5,000 troops and after defeating an American force twice as large marches on Washington and burn the Capitol, The President's Mansion and other public buildings. President James Madison and wife Dolly barely escaped.
6	1815	The first mechanized loom, powered by water, is built in Waltham, Massachusetts. Providence, Rhode Island has 170 mills, making it one of the largest textile producing cities in the U.S.
7	1825	New England becomes the nation's textile center with 16,000 mills in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York.
8	1828	Frank Logan discovers gold in White County, Georgia. The Cherokee controlled most of the land in the gold region. The Georgia legislature began to plan their removal almost immediately after the discovery of gold. This eventually led to the "Trail of Tears."
9	1833	Witnessing the explosive growth of factories, Thomas Jefferson claims wage work undermines the autonomy of workes and thus threatens America's democratic institutions.
10	1835	British Scientest Andrew Ure claims "training humans is essential to successful manufacturing".
11	1838	17 May: The Trail of Tears begins as General Winfield Scott arrives in New Echota with 7,000 men. At least 4,000 Cherokee die in a forced march out of Georgia to reservations in Oklahoma.
12	1839	9 Apr: The first commericial telegraph begins operation in England.
13	1849	The California Gold rush draws fortune seekers from around the world to San Francisco.
14	1861	12 Apr: American Civil War begins
15	1865	9 Apr: The American Civil War ends with the surrender of Lee at Appomattax.
16	1869	10 May: Transcontinental Railroad is completed at Promontory, Utah. This reduced from 6 months to 6 days the travel time from St. Louis, Missouri to Sacramento, California; a distance of 2,000 miles.
17	1878	Jan: First North American telephone exchange opened in New Haven, Connecticut.
18	1879	California's 2nd Constitutional Convention, presided over by Joseph P. Hoge, concludes. The constitution they drew up is the one in effect today.
19	1881	The first public electricity supply was generated in Godalming, Surrey using a waterwheel at a nearby mill.
20	1886	Flush toilets are invented.