Webster Chapin Sylvester

Male16 March 1864–31 October 1865

Brief Life History of Webster Chapin

When Webster Chapin Sylvester was born on 16 March 1864, in Newport, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Daniel Webster Sylvester, was 33 and his mother, Augusta Pauline Chapin, was 31. He died on 31 October 1865, in his hometown, at the age of 1.

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Family Time Line

Daniel Webster Sylvester
1831–1906
Augusta Pauline Chapin
1832–1891
Webster Chapin Sylvester
1864–1865
Chester Wright Sylvester
1866–1932
Daniel Hurd Sylvester
1868–1950
Albert Hale Sylvester
1871–1944

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    World Events (3)

    1865

    Age 1

    Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

    1865 · The Assassination of a President

    Age 1

    "While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."

    1865 · The Thirteenth Amendment

    Age 1

    The Thirteenth Amendment was created to help abolished slavery and involuntary servitude. It was the first of three Amendments to Reconstruct the country following the Civil War.

    Name Meaning

    English and German: from the Middle English and Latin personal name Silvester ‘dweller in the forest’ (a derivative of silva ‘wood’). The name was borne by three popes, including a contemporary of Constantine the Great, and seems to have been first used in England by clerics.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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