5

Susan Coons (Killian) 75
Lott Russon 84

4

Bernard Snow (II) 57
Nancy Jane Killian (Snow) 53
John Sylvester Perry 61
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 56
Anders Peder Jensen 88
Elijah Peck Sr. 63
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 62
Lawson Green Wilson 66

3

William Nephi Lowe 44
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 34
Charles Eben Snow 29
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 32
Martin Peterson 48
Elisha Peck Jr. 42
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 37

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 10
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 7
Harry Chester Peterson 11
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 11

General

Population: 1.79 Billion*

• Entertainment: Writers include DH Lawrence (Sons and Lovers), Poet Rabindranath Tagore, Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust, Edith Wharton, Luigi Pirandello, Shaw (Pygmalion), Maxim Gorki, Berhard Kellermann, Miguel de Unamundo, Sigmund Freud (Totem and Taboo), Jack London, Robert Frost, Eleanor H Porter (Pollyanna), Jack Judge writes Tipperary
  Artists include Walter Sickert, Stanley Spencer, JS Sargent, Apollinaire
  Foxtrot dance comes into fashion
  Music includes Stravinsky (Rite of Spring), De Falla, Scriabin, Debussy, Elgar (Falstaff), Victor Herbert writes Sweethearts operetta
  Top songs include Danny Boy, Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral, Rite of Spring, Peg O' My Heart, Ballin' The Jack, Hungarian Rag, And Then
  Films include The Vampire, The Squaw Man (Cecil B De Mille), Der Student von Prag (Charlie Chaplin)
• Fashion: Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel opens boutique that would make her famous
  Zippers become popular
• Medicine: Diphtheria immunity test discovered by Bela Schick
• Science: Holmes proposes radioactive dating in rocks
  JJ Thompson writes about positive electric rays
  Geiger creates device for detecting alpha waves
  Bohr formulates theory of atomic structure
  Soddy coins isotope
  Composition of chlorophyll discovered by Willstatter
  Vitamin A isolated at Yale
  Russell formulates theory of stellar evolution
  Bodenstein formulates concept of chemical chain reaction
  Lorin states basic ideas of jet propulsion
  Chemical element protactinium discovered
  
• Technology: Stainless steel invented
  Assembly-line manufacturing started at Ford
  Bergius converts coal dust into oil
• Deaths: Harriet Tubman, J Pierpont Morgan, Hamburg Zoo founder Karl Hagenbeck, Astronomer Sir Robert Ball, Engineer Rudolf Diesel, Mark Rutherford aka philosopher William Hale White, Physicist Robert Lieben

Africa

• Abyssinia: (Ethiopia) Death of Menelik II Emperor of Abyssinia – succeeded by Lij Yasu
• French Congo: ALbert Schweitzer opens hospital
• South Africa: Drought
  Laws preserves 87% of land to whites

Americas

• Argentina: Cayetano Gonino put into reformatory for killing – age 16
• Mexico: President Madero assassinated by Huerta who becomes president
• Panama: Canal finished

Asia

• China: Autonomy granted to outer provinces including outer Mongolia
  Sung Chiao-Jen of Chinese nationalist party assassinated - Yuan Shih-kai elected President
• India: Mohandas Gandhi arrested

Europe

• General: Germany and England draw up pact to divide Portuguese colonies
  Treaty of Bucharest ends Second Balkan War – Bulgaria defeated and Balkans partitionized
  End of Balkan Wars - optimists predict that balance of powers would lead to peace
• Albania: Independence
• Austria-Hungary: Bruno Walter becomes director of Munich Opera
• Bulgaria: Treaty of London ends first Balkan War
  Second Balkan War begins – Bulgaria fights Serbia and Greece - Bulgaria defeated by former allies
• France: Mona Lisa returned to Louvre
  Poincare elected President of France – visits England
  Aristide Briand becomes French Premier
  "Zabern affair" in Alsace-Lorraine endangers relations between France and Germany
• Germany: Insane Otto of Bavaria deposed
  Death of August Bebel leader of German Social Democrats dies – succeeded by Friedrich Ebert
  Imperator the German turbine liner begins service
• Great Britain: Ulster Volunteers and House of Lords oppose home rule in Ireland
  Deadliest tornado in the United Kingdom
  Suffragette demonstrations in London – Mrs. Pankhurst sentenced for inciting persons to place explosive in Lloyd George's house
  First woman magistrate sworn in in England
  New Statesman founded in London
• Greece: Crete's reunification with Greece recognized (See 1908)
  George I assassinated by Constantine I
• Italy: 73 stampeded in crowded hall
• Russia: 300th anniversary of Romanov dynasty
• Serbia: War declared on Bulgaria and defeats her aided by Turks
• Sweden: Ivar Kreuger founds Swedish Match Company
• Switzerland: Goetheanum founded – anthroposophy

Middle East

• Ottoman Empire: Disintegration toward Turkey
  Coup d'etat of Young Turks
  Turkey fights Bulgarians in Balkan Wars
  Treaty of COnstantinople between Turkey and Bulgaria

Pacific

• Arctic: Donald MacMillan and other Americans seek Crocker Land – the Arctic mountain range mirage
• New Zealand: Foundation of United Federation of Labour and Social Democratic Party
• Wallis Islands: Becomes French protectorate

President:

Pres: William H. Taft
Pres: Woodrow Wilson inaugurated

General

• Business: Congress passes Underwood Tariff
  US Congress determines that corporations are beginning to dominate education and social services
  John D Rockerfeller founds Rockefeller Institute with grant of 100 million
• Entertainment: Wild West Show of Buffalo Bill's bankrupts – Cody must work in circus to pay bills
  Annie Oakley retires – somewhat
  Charlie Chaplin makes first film
• Finance: Depression in US until WWI
  Federal Reserve Act - Pujo committee appointed by Congress investigates banking industry spurs creation of Federal Reserve System supposedly to stabilize banks
• Law: 16th amendment - Income tax
  17th amendment - Direct election of senators
• Sports: Walter Hagen appears on US golf scene
• Technology: Henry Ford invents assembly line - reduces creation of the Model T to 93 minutes
• Death: Harriet Tubman

East

• New Jersey: Possible tsunami
• New York: Armory Show introduces Continental Modernism
  Woolworth Building designed
  Grand Central Terminal opens
  Binghamton Clothing Company fire kills 50 and burns many more - not Triangle Shirt Factory in 1911
  Irene and Vernon Castle the dancers make debut
  Armory Show introduces Postimpressionism and cubism
• Pennsylvania: 15 Philadelphia children intentionally infected with tuberculin – blindness in some

Midwest

• General: Great Lakes region – storms kill over 250
• Ohio: Dayton flood
• Nebraska: Tornado hits Omaha and Tornado forms over Easter party

South

• Texas: Galveston hurricane

West and Pacific

• Colorado: Violent strikes at Rockefeller-owned coal fields in Ludlow
• New Mexico: Dawson mine disaster kills 263

President

Pres: Joseph F. Smith

Membership: 431,607

Temples: 4

Other

• Church establishes Maori college (destroyed in 1931 earthquake)
• Boy Scout program adopted by YMMIA - official affiliation
• Last organized Mormon trek out of London
• Senator Reed Smoot attends Wilson's inauguration
• Smoot meets with Wilson to keep out of War of Mexico
• Missionaries evacuate Mexico