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1844
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27-Jun
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She is born in Quakertown, Ledyard, CT, to Jonathan
Whipple, Jr., and Lucy Whipple, their second child
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1848
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Nov
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Her sister Lucy dies at age five and a half
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1849
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1-Sep
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Her brother Zerah is born
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1851
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9-Apr
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Her sister Laura is born in Ledyard
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1854
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17-Apr
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Her brother Walter is born
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ca. mid-1850s
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Her family lives in Adin Ballou's Hopedale community in Massachusetts; the community makes plans in 1856 to manufacture a "self-acting nipper" tackle block developed by her father. Later the family moves to the Bishop Hill community in Illinois and then to Iowa, where they live in a log house, before returning to Ledyard
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1860
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She teaches in Lambtown School with Francis Gallup
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1864
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She teaches in Lambtown School with Jonathon Lester
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1865
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She teaches in Lambtown School with Jonathon Lester
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1866
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She teaches in Lambtown School with Frank Whipple
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1869
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Zerah begins the Whipple Home School for Deaf-Mutes
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1870
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5-Nov
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Laura marries Frank Whipple
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1871
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The Prescotts is published by Garrigues Brothers of
Philadelphia
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1871
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6-Nov
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Zerah marries Mary Jane Turner
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1872
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The Newell Boys--A Temperance Story is published by
H. Hoyt of Boston
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1872-74
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Her grandfather Jonathan Whipple and Zerah, with her help,
publish the periodical The Voice of Peace
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1874
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Zerah spends time in jail for refusing to pay a military
tax
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1874
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Zerah moves the Whipple Home School to Mystic
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1874
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8-Oct
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She marries Gilbert Gard Waley, adopted son of Mary Whipple, her father's sister. He is 21; she is 30
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1875
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11-Feb
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Her grandfather Jonathan Whipple dies
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1875
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29-Jun
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Her son Waldo Lawrence Waley is born
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1876
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3-Oct
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Her brother Walter dies suddenly at age 22, only weeks
after beginning to teach in the Whipple Home School
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1876
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5-Dec
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Her son William Downing Waley is born; he is named after
the first pupil in the Whipple Home School, William S. Downing of Wilmington,
Delaware
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1877
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A second edition of The Prescotts is published
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1879
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5-Jan
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Her daughter Laura Lawson Waley is born
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1879
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14-Sep
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Zerah dies of typhoid fever; Frank Whipple becomes administrator
of the Whipple Home School
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1880
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The census lists her as "keeping house" in
Groton and lists her husband's occupation as "fisherman"
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1880
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25-Oct
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She dies; she is survived by Gilbert and three children,
by both parents, and by sister Laura. Shortly before her death, she says to a friend, "If the Lord calls me away... He will take care of my children." According to Ida Whipple Benham, "Among her unpublished writings is a completed story sufficient in length to make a volume of considerable size,—and another nearly completed" (_Benham’s Living Era_, [Mystic, CT], Vol. 1, No. 9, December, 1880, pp. 6-7)
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1881
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17-May
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Gilbert remarries; he marries Zerah's widow
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1881
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25-Jun
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Her daughter Laura dies
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