This is Cassander ("Cass") Hanks. He is a brother of my great grandmother, Emily Amanda Hanks Carpenter. Cass was born in 1860 in Carroll County, VA. His parents were Enoch and Martha Morris Hanks.
The 1800s where the end of the industrial revolution and the birth of scientists.
The Industrial Revolution began around 1760 and ran through the 1840's. Then began the birth of the profession of science. Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Te...