February/March Timeline

by Kat Koorey

First published in February/March, 2004, Volume 1, Issue 1 of The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies.

February

1st. 1893, Ex Governor George Robinson joins Lizzie’s defense team (R181)

3rd. 1854, Abraham Borden deeds to son Andrew 22.32 rods and home on Ferry St., for “love and affection” (R28)

6th. 1879, Adelaide Churchill’s husband Charles dies at age 35 (R98)

7th. 1965, Nance O’Neil dies in Englewood, NJ, at age 90 (R308)

14th. 1910, Lizzie sells over 18 acres in Swansea, either side of Gardner’s Neck Rd. (R559)

16th. 1926, Adelaide Churchill dies in Fall River, at age 76 (R98)

18th. 1904, Edwin H. Porter, author of The Fall River Tragedy, dies in Fall River, at age 39 (R360-361)

19th. 1829, Phebe Ann Borden, sister of Andrew, is born (R4)

21st. 1854, Andrew Borden buys part of Ferry Street property from father Abraham (R549)

22nd. 1896, George Robinson dies in Chicopee, MA, at age 62 (R198)

25th. 1968, Gertrude M. (Russell) Callow, Lizzie’s live-in domestic from 1912-1913, dies in Fall River (R289)

26th. 1829, Hiram Harrington, married to Andrew’s sister Lurana Borden, is born (R3)

27th. 1929, Lizzie’s estate of French St. deeded to Emma’s estate (R360)

March

1st.  1851, Emma Lenora Borden is born (R7)

1st. 1845, Borden-Almy business opened, corner of South Main and Anawan St. (R53)

1st. 1912, John Vinnicum Morse dies in Hastings, Iowa, at age 79 (R71)

3rd. 1918, Dr. Seabury Bowen dies in Fall River, at age 78 (R69)

4th. 1867, George Borden dies of “brain disease” at age 9 years, 5 months. George was the son of Hiram and Lurana Harrington (R3)

9th. 1903, Rev. Edwin Augustus Buck dies (R16)

10th. 1858, Alice Esther Borden dies of “dropsy on the brain” (hydrocephalus) at age 1 year, 10 months (R7)

13th. 1930, Mary Eleanor (Wil-kins) Freeman, author of “The Long Arm” dies at age 77 (R442)

14th. 1939, John Sullivan, Bridget’s husband, dies in Anaconda, Montana (R66)

16th. 1900, Judge Justin Dewey dies at age 64 (R194)

17th. 1931, Dr. Thomas F. Gunning, last survivor of group of witnesses at the autopsies of Andrew and Abby, dies (R107)

18th. 1941, Arthur Sherman Phillips dies in Fall River, at age 76 (R199)

25th. 1948, Bridget dies in Butte, Montana at age 73 (R66)

26th. 1863, Sarah Anthony Morse Borden dies of “uterine conjestion” and “disease of the spine” at age 39 (R6)

28th. 1854, Charles C. Cook is born in Fall River (R329)

28th. 1966, Edward D. Radin, author of Lizzie Borden, the Untold Story, dies of cancer at age 56 (R366)

29th. 1848, Asst. City Marshal John Fleet is born in Aston-Under-Lyne, Lancaster, England (R149)

30th. 1926, As trustee for Lizzie, Charles C. Cook buys land and house from Harriet E. Henry (R560)

Source: Len Rebello, Lizzie Borden Past and Present.