Jessie Stanford (1877 - 1969)

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Angela Rene Stanford (maiden name)

1955 Kodiak Naval High School

Walter & Loren (Terry) Stanford

Walter and Dorothy (Krauser) Stanford, Jr.

Mary (Nicholson) & William Stanford family

Elzie Byron Cornett, Sr. & friends

Stanford Family Men, 1931

Stanford Family Man, 1931

Juanita Elrod, 1932 Georgia, Spring Place School

Leland Stanford - Founder Stanford University

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In 1877, in the year that Jessie Stanford was born, on November 21st, Thomas Edison announced his new invention - the phonograph. Recording sound was considered to be Edison's first great invention. On November 29th, he demonstrated the phonograph for the public.

In 1898, by the time she was 21 years old, on March 24th, Robert Allison of Pennsylvania became the first person to buy an American-built car. He bought a Winton, which he had seen in an advertisement in Scientific American. The Winton, built in Ohio, was made by hand and came with a leather roof, padded seats, gas lamps, and tires made by B.F. Goodrich.

In 1943, she was 66 years old when on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.

In 1951, she was 74 years old when on April 5th, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (husband and wife) were sentenced to death for treason. They were executed on June 19th. American citizens, they were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. Their two young sons were adopted by a high school teacher and his wife.

In 1969, in the year of Jessie Stanford's passing, on January 20th, Richard M. Nixon became the 37th President of the United States. Previously the Vice President to President Eisenhower, Nixon was the only President to resign in office - in his second term.