Kat Kooreyby Kat Koorey
First published in October/November, 2004, Volume 1, Issue 5 of The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies.
October
1st. 1887, Andrew gives Emma and Lizzie the Ferry St. property for $1 (R28, 30)
1st. 1922, Dr. Dolan dies in Fall River at age 64 (R99)
3rd. 1893, Lizzie is at the Chicago World’s Fair (R187)
3rd. 1900, Judge Josiah Coleman Blaisdell dies in Fall River at age 80 (R152)
3rd. 1904, Mary Russell, night matron at the Central Police Station in Fall River dies at the age of 75 (R160)
6th. 1993, Agnes deMille dies at the age of 88 (R370)
8th. 1874, Nance O’Neil is born in Oakland, CA (R308)
9th. 1901, Ellen Egan’s husband Owen dies in Fall River at the age of 43 (R129)
11th. 1955, Mr. Ernest A. Terry, Lizzie’s chauffeur, dies in Fall River at the age of 70 (R327)
13th. 1853, Phebe Davenport Borden, wife of Abraham, dies at the age of 64 (R3)
17th. 1907, Barbara Hunt Watters, author of The Astrologer Looks at Murder, is born in Chicago (R171)
19th. 1923, Andrew Jackson Jennings dies in Fall River at the age of 74 (R196)
22nd. 1820, Judge Josiah Coleman Blaisdell is born in Campton, NH (R152)
23rd. 1904, Victoria Lincoln, author of A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden by Daylight, is born in Fall River (R367)
24th. 1906, John Morse and Amos R. Caswell purchase lot in Fairhaven from George H. Howard (R77)
28th. 1893, Captain Philip Harrington dies in Newport, RI at age 34, 17 days after his second wedding (R151)
29th. 1895, Southard Harrison Miller dies; at one time Andrew Borden worked for Miller and Miller built 92 Second St. (R23-24)
30th. 1842, Allan Cunningham, author of “Home, Home, Home,” dies in London (R325)
30th. 1899, Joseph Carpenter dies in Worcester, MA, at age 44 (R133)
31st. 1852, Mary Eleanor (Wilkins) Freeman, author of “The Long Arm” (1st detective story to use Borden murder case), is born (R441)
November
5th. 1824, Laura Ann Borden, sister of Andrew and twin of Charlotte, is born (R3)
7th. 1836, Albert Mason, Chief Justice at Lizzie’s trial, is born in Middleboro, MA (R193)
7th. 1850, Melvin Ohio Adams born in Ashburnham, MA (R197)
7th. 1854, Andrew Borden purchases Ferry St. land from Abraham (R549)
9th. 1874, Grace Hartley Howe born in Fall River (R 333)
10th. 1861, Nellie (Smith) Clark, born in Norwich, CT (Mrs. Rufus Hilliard) (R149)
11th. 1916, Jane Baker, 2nd wife of Oliver Gray, father of Abby, dies at the age of 89 (R23)
11th. 1928, Hannah Reagan dies in Fall River (R159)
13th. 1821, William M. Almy, partner to Andrew, is born in Portsmouth, RI (R53)
14th. 1826, Jane Baker, 2nd wife of Oliver Gray and stepmother to Priscilla and Abby, mother to Sarah Bertha Gray, is born (R23)
14th. 1947, Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, author of Lizzie Borden: A Study in Conjecture, dies in England at age 80 (R439)
15th. 1892, Grand Jury convenes from Nov. 15 to Nov. 21 at the Superior Court in Taunton to hear evidence in the Borden case (R178)
20th. 1920, Emma signs her will (R347)
23rd. 1854, Abraham Borden marries Bebe Wilmarth in Fall River (R4)
Source: Leonard Rebello, Lizzie Borden Past and Present
