Joseph Michael Stafford (1885 - 1949)

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Stafford John Stafford

Alice Timms Stafford

Joseph Michael Stafford

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Stafford John Stafford

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Alice Timms Stafford

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Evelyn May (Stafford) Dostal

Kyle Markie Stafford

Marian Nadine (Palmer) Stafford

Nile Stafford

Richard Wesley “Rick” (Stafford)

Sheldon Albert Stafford

Elizabeth “Betty” (Wheeler) Stafford

David G Stafford

Charles Robert Stafford

Benjamin Stafford

Beverly J Stafford

Harriet M. (Hamilton) Stafford

Norman Alvin Stafford

John Austin Stafford

Nellie May (Thurston) Stafford

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In 1885, in the year that Joseph Michael Stafford was born, on January 24th, the Fenians - Irish Nationalists - set off dynamite bombs in the House of Commons chamber, Westminster Hall, and the Tower of London. Four civilians and two policemen were injured.

In 1898, he was only 13 years old when magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company controlled 84% of the oil and pipelines in the United States. Rockefeller grew Standard Oil through the merger of several other small oil companies throughout the U.S., creating a monopoly.

In 1906, at the age of 21 years old, Joseph was alive when English biochemist Frederick Hopkins concluded that vitamins are essential to the human body and that a lack of vitamins caused scurvy and rickets. Scurvy and rickets were both huge problems in sailors that were at sea for extended time and the addition of vitamin C, vitamin D, and calcium in their diets helped eradicate the problem.

In 1910, by the time he was 25 years old, Halley's comet, which returns past the earth every 75 - 76 years was observed photographically for the first time. Two fortuitous events occurred - photography had been invented since the last time the comet had passed and the comet was relatively close. There was panic because one astronomer claimed that the gas from its tail "would impregnate the atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet." People bought gas masks, "anti-comet pills" and "anti-comet umbrellas".

In 1949, in the year of Joseph Michael Stafford's passing, on January 25th, the first Emmy Awards (for television) were handed out in Los Angeles. Shirley Dinsdale won for the Most Outstanding Television Personality and Pantomime Quiz Time earned an Emmy for the Most Popular Television Program.