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Cornelius "Neely" Charles Farris 1838 - 1930

Cornelius Charles Farris was born on April 15, 1838 at Knox, Kentucky, USA. He was in a relationship with Mary Jane (Martin) Brock, and had a child Valentine Gallihue "Hugh" Martin. Cornelius Farris died at age 92 years old on November 10, 1930 at Knox, Kentucky, USA. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Cornelius "Neely" Charles Farris.

Cornelius Charles Farris

April 15, 1838

Knox, Kentucky, USA

November 10, 1930

Knox, Kentucky, USA

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04/15

1838

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April 15, 1838

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Knox, Kentucky, USA

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1930

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November 10, 1930

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Knox, Kentucky, USA
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Cornelius "Neely" Charles Farris lived 21 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 92.

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In 1838, in the year that Cornelius "Neely" Charles Farris was born, on January 11th in New Jersey, Samuel Morse and two others first publicly demonstrated Morse's new invention - the telegraph. Patented by Morse in 1837, the electrical telegraph used a code developed by him and his assistant, Samuel Vail, and sent a message two miles. In 1844, Morse broadcast from Washington DC to Baltimore Maryland the message "What hath God wrought" and the telegraph took off.

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In 1850, Cornelius was merely 12 years old when on March 7th, Senator Daniel Webster of Massachusetts delivered the "Seventh of March" speech. Trying to avoid a civil war, he endorsed "slave states" and "free states" and the Fugitive Slave Law, which directed federal officials to "recapture and return runaway slaves".

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