William John Mountain (1836 - 1906)

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Eliza Benney

William John Mountain

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William Mountain

May 1805 - Apr 7, 1847

Eliza Benney

Nov 23, 1815 - Aug 23, 1898

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Margaret Watson (Fraser) Mountain

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Frederick Charles Mountain

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Margaret Watson (Fraser) Mountain

Jun 30, 1841 - Apr 21, 1896

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Frederick Charles Mountain

1874 - Jun 19, 1953

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Eliza Bennie Mountain

William John Mountain

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William Mountain

May 1805 - Apr 7, 1847

Eliza Bennie Mountain

Nov 23, 1815 - Aug 23, 1898

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William John Mountain & Margaret Watson (Fraser) Mountain

William John Mountain

Margaret Watson (Fraser) Mountain

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Margaret Watson (Fraser) Mountain

Jun 30, 1841 - Apr 21, 1896

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In 1836, in the year that William John Mountain was born, on February 23rd, the Battle of the Alamo began. A group of American settlers were surrounded by the Mexican Army, led by Santa Anna, at the Alamo. The battle lasted until March 6th - all of the settler army was killed. Historians estimate that 400–600 in the Mexican Army were killed.

In 1858, by the time he was 22 years old, on January 14th, Felice Orsini and others tried - but failed - to assassinate Napoleon III of France. The bombs they set off did kill 8 people - and wounded 142 others. Some of the conspirators were French émigrés who lived in Britain, setting off a short anti-British feeling in France. But the emperor refused to support the sentiment and it died out. Orsini was executed by guillotine on March 13th.

In 1885, at the age of 49 years old, William was alive when 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 1891, he was 55 years old when on June 25th, in the July issue of The Strand Magazine in London, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes appeared in a series of short stories for the first time. Doyle eventually wrote 4 novels and 56 short stories with Holmes as the main character.

In 1906, in the year of William John Mountain's passing, President Theodore Roosevelt received the Nobel Prize for Peace. The award was considered controversial at the time because many thought that he was an imperialist. But he had brokered peace between Russia and Japan a year previous and had allowed a dispute between Mexico and the U.S. to go to arbitration, resolving the issue peacefully rather than resorting to military conflict. For these two reasons, the Nobel Prize committee chose him for the Peace Prize.