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Birth -- 11 July 1838  26  20 Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA |
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| Event -- 11 July 1838 actually born as "John Nelson Wanamaker", being named after grandfather and father, but early on decided to go by simply "John Wanamaker" |
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| Event -- 11 July 1838 John Nelson Wanamaker, originally named after grandfather and father, but early on decided to go by simply "John Wanamaker" |
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| Census -- 1840 (Age 17 months) 1840 Census, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Passyunk Township, page 181 [parents with 2 sons, 1 daughter] |
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| Event -- between 1850 and 1987 (Age 11) John Wanamaker collection, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA - No. 2188, 365 linear feet of records, gift of Woodward & Lathrop Inc. (1988) and the Wanamaker Institute of Industries (1995) |
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| Census -- 1850 (Age 11) 1850 Census, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, 5th Ward, Moyamensing, page 480, line 12 [sheet 60] |
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| Event -- 27 September 1860 (Age 22) by the Reverend John Chambers, First Independent Church, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA |
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| Census -- 1860 (Age 21) 1860 Census, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia, 8th Ward, sheet 242, page 604, line 10 (still single) |
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| Event -- 27 September 1860 (Age 22) Philadelphia Registration of Marriages, 1860, page 13, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA |
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| Marriage -- 27 September 1860 (Age 22) Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA Mary Erringer Brown |
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| Event -- 27 September 1860 (Age 22) by the Reverend John Chambers of the First Independent Church, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA Mary Erringer Brown |
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| Event -- 27 September 1860 (Age 22) Philadelphia Registration of Marriages, 1860, page 13, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA Mary Erringer Brown |
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| Census -- 1870 (Age 31) 1870 Census, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia, 8th Ward, 23rd District, sheet 108, page 160, line 21 |
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| Census -- 1880 (Age 41) 1880 Census, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia, ED 146, page 4, lines 35-40 |
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| Event -- 1900 (Age 61) in 1900 the Wanamakers employed 11 full time, live-in servants |
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| Census -- 1900 (Age 61) 1900 Census, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia, 8th Ward, ED 156, page 10b |
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| Census -- 1910 (Age 71) 1910 Census, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia, 8th Ward, ED 176, page 2a |
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| Event -- 1911 (Age 72) Golden Book of the Wanamaker Stores, John Wanamaker, Philadelphia 1911 |
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| Death -- 12 December 1922 (Age 84) Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA |
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| Event -- 12 December 1922 (on the date of death) obituary, The Oakland Daily Tribune |
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| Event -- 12 December 1922 (on the date of death) obituary, The Oakland Daily Tribune states that maternal grandfather was Henry Kochersperger |
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| Burial -- 14 December 1922 (2 days after death) St. James the Less Episcopal Church burial ground, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA |
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| Event -- 1924 (12 months after death) The Romantic Rise of a Great American by Russell H. Conwell, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1924 |
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| Event -- 1926 (3 years after death) John Wanamaker, by Herbert Adams Gibbons, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1926 |
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| Event -- 1936 (13 years after death) Dictionary of American Biography, 1936, vol. X, part 1, pages 407 and following |
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