User:EPM/Henry George timeline

This is a timeline on the life of Henry George. The purpose is to organize information about George's life to incorporate into the Henry george article.

Timeline

• 1839
  • September 2 - Born

• 1855
  • April - went to sea as a foremast boy on the Hindoo, bound for Melbourne and Calcutta.

• 1861
  • Eloped with Annie Corsina Fox

• 1862
  • November 3 - Their first child, future United States Representative from New York, Henry George, Jr., was born

• 1879
  • Wrote Progress and Poverty

• 1885
  • April 1 - Delivers a speech called "The Crime of Poverty" at the Opera House in Burlington, Iowa

• 1897
  • October 29 - Died