My grand uncle John Devlin born 6th April 1877 in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland, died January 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. He married Mary Coyle born about 1880 in Scotland, died 1948 in Chicago, Illinois. They were married on the 13th July 1900 in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland and had three children I’m aware of: Mary Devlin born 26th April 1903 in Carriden, West Lothian, Scotland, Elizabeth Devlin born about 1907 in Illinois and Rose born about 1909 in Illinois. From an obit I was given, Mary Devlin married an O’Mera, Elizabeth a Riley and Rose a McDonagh.
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...
Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
From 1900 through 1999 we witnessed the beginning of flight to a man on the moon and a Mars Rover. We went from using phones tethered by cords and computers that filled rooms, to carrying the equivale...
The 1960's were years of great change: Protests (Vietnam War, Free Speech, Civil Rights), assassinations (JFK, Martin Luther King Jr, Bobby Kennedy), conflict (the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War, ...
Coming out of the Great Depression, the world faced another challenge in the 1940's: World War II. Although the war began in the 1930's, it expanded and gained in ferocity (and atrocities) in the 194...