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Male  John Nelson ‎[I]‎ Wanamaker
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Birth -- 25 October 1811 24 26 Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
Marriage -- about 1836 ‎(Age 24)‎ Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA Elizabeth Deshong Kochersperger
Event -- 1840 ‎(Age 28)‎ 1840 Census, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Passyunk Township, page 181 ‎[2 sons‎, 1 daughter]
Event -- 1850 ‎(Age 38)‎ 1850 Census, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, 5th Ward, Moyamensing, page 480, line 12 ‎[sheet 60]‎
Event -- 1860 ‎(Age 48)‎ 1860 Census, Pennsylvania, Franklin County, Chambersburg, South Ward, page 207 ‎[sheet 124]‎
Death -- 18 July 1862 ‎(Age 50)‎ Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, USA
Probate -- 1862 ‎(Age 50)‎ letter of administration filed in 1862 at Chambersburg Court House, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, USA - File No. 8349 - actual documents are missing
Event -- 1862 ‎(Age 50)‎ administrators of the estate of John Nelson Wanamaker are his son John Wanamaker and Mr. William Wallace
Event -- 18 July 1862 ‎(on the date of death)‎ overdose, according to death certificate ‎(only transcript exists in the Pennsylvania Historical Society's archives‎, Philadelphia "Wanamaker Collection")
Burial -- July 1862 ‎(Age 50)‎ initial burial in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, USA - on 22nd Oct 1869 removed to Mt. Vernon Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial -- 22 October 1869 ‎(7 years after death)‎ re-interred at Mount Vernon Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Event -- 1924 ‎(61 years after death)‎ The Romantic Rise of a Great American by Russell H. Conwell, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1924
Event -- 1926 ‎(63 years after death)‎ John Wanamaker, by Herbert Adams Gibbons, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1926
Event -- 1936 ‎(73 years after death)‎ Dictionary of American Biography, 1936, vol. X, part 1, pages 407 and following