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1914 - 1918 World War I
1929 The Great Depression begins
1939 - 1945 World War II
1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)
1950 Korean War begins
1879 Edison invents phono/light bulb
1898 Spanish-American War
1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight
1908 Ford produces Model T
1913 Edison invents movies w/sound
1812 - 1814 War of 1812 with Britain
1846 War w/Mexico,Calif & NM acquired
1861 - 1865 Civil War, North vs. South
1867 Alaska Territory purchased
1869 Transcontinental Railroad complete
 Elkanah Shaw Atwood
 b.1824 Middlebo, Massachusetts
 d.1898 Boston, Massachusetts
 Samuel Shurtleff Atwood
 b.1853 Roxbury, Massachusetts
 d.1941 Baltimore, Maryland
 Nancy Freeman Shaw
 b.1826 Carver, Massachusetts
 d.1911 Boston, Massachusetts
 Harry Nelson Atwood
 b.1883 Roxbury, Massachusetts
 d.1967 North Carolina
 Thomas Nelson
 b.1819 Boston, Massachusetts
 d.1883 Boston, Massachusetts
 Florence Nelson
 b.1859 Nantucke, Massachusetts
 d.1930 Boston, Massachusetts
 Avis Macy Hazard
 b.1822 Nantucke, Massachusetts
 d.1877 Malden, Massachusetts
 Bethany Atwood
 b. Private
 d.         
 Sarah M. Jenkins
 b.1875 Lynn, Massachusetts
 d.