John Samuel Blankenbeker was a civil war veteran who served in the 73rd Regiment Company A Illinois. He moved to Ottawa, Kansas in 1870. In 1878 he moved his family to Buffalo, Wilson County, Kansas where he lived until his death on Jan 16, 1916.
John Samuel Blankenbeker was born on May 10, 1835. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember John Samuel Blankenbeker.
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...
World War 1, the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Easter Rising in Ireland . . . the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Spanish flu killed well over 20 million people world wide ...
Old photos of workers and businesses from past decades
While we don't know what the first business transaction was, it is easy to imagine that thousands of years ago a good hunter bartered his excess meat for something more useful to him. In the history ...