Mathew Beard (1861 - 1949)

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Beard John Beard

Elizabeth Wood Beard

Mathew Beard

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Beard John Beard

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Elizabeth Wood Beard

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Susanna Gabb < Beard >

Mr Edward Thomas Beard

Florence Lyes. < Beard >

Dita D Beard

Dita D Beard

Dita D Beard

Dita D Beard

Dita D Beard

Dita D Beard

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Charles Beard

Nancy Lee Woods

Nancy Lee Woods

Nancy Lee Woods

Nancy Lee Woods

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In 1861, in the year that Mathew Beard was born, on April 12th, the Civil War began with shots fired at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. The Confederate Army attacked the Fort a little over a month after the inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln. Fort Sumter surrendered the next day.

In 1874, Mathew was merely 13 years old when on September 14th, the Battle of Liberty Place occurred in New Orleans - the capital of Louisiana. Some members of the previous Confederate Army assembled for the purpose of "driving the usurpers from power" and the Republican Governor - William P. Kellogg - was physically driven from his office. The former Confederates temporarily replaced him with (the former) Democratic Governor John McEnery. Federal forces arrived, put down the insurrection, and five days later the legally elected government was restored.

In 1897, by the time he was 36 years old, in the January 22nd issue of "Engineering", the word "computer" was first used to refer to a mechanical calculation device. Previously - since the 17th century - the term computer meant "one who computes" and referred to human beings who worked with numbers.

In 1916, Mathew was 55 years old when the Battle of Verdun was fought from February through December. It was the largest and longest battle of World War I, lasting 303 days. The original estimates were 714,231 casualties - 377,231 French and 337,000 German, an average of 70,000 casualties a month. Current estimates are even larger. The Battle of the Somme was also fought from July through September of the same year. Original estimates were 485,000 British and French casualties and 630,000 German casualties.

In 1949, in the year of Mathew Beard'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.