Timeline for Alfred's Family 1868-1907

Before we move on to Alfred’s recollections of his teenage years, let’s take a look at a timeline of events in Alfred’s life and what’s going on in the rest of the country:

EVENTS IN ALFRED’S LIFE		HISTORICAL EVENTS
Frederick August Moehlmann is born in Indianapolis	1868
Matilda Tendick is born in Germany	1872
	1880	Population of Indianapolis is 75,056
Matilda immigrates with her parents to Linton, Indiana and moves to Indianapolis	1889
	1890	Population of Indianapolis is 100,436
Frederick and Matilda are married in Indianapolis	1893
	1894	First public showing of Edison’s kinetoscope motion picture is shown
	1896	William McKinley became President
The family is living at 1611 Spann Ave.	1900	Population of Indianapolis is 169,164
	1902	Indianapolis Indians baseball team is active
	1903	Orville and Wilbur Wright made their first flight Henry Ford founded Ford Motor Co.
	1904	The first successful field tractor is invented
The family moves to 1623 English Ave.	1905
	1906	The San Francisco earthquake at 7.8 resulting in fire and the deaths of 500
-The family moves to 905 Madison Ave. -Frederick and Matilda separate and she moves to 110 Vermont St. with Alfred. -Matilda and Frederick divorce. -Alfred goes to his first movie. -Alfred is sent to live with his maternal grandparents in Linton, Indiana	1907	Oklahoma becomes the 46th state to join the Union.
	1910	Indianapolis population is 233,560 Linton population 5,906 Greene County, IN population 36,873

The map above shows where Alfred lived and where is school was.  He stayed in the same general area of Indianapolis during his childhood.   He enjoyed the activities of a city - going to baseball game, enjoying the Riverside Amusement Park, riding on trolley, skating on the sidewalks, visiting the fire station. He also had the opportunity to visit the railroad yards with his father, seeing the new Monon train and riding the roundtable. He had spent summers at his grandparents farm, but now he was going there to live. The nearby town of Linton had a population of about 6000 and the entire county's population was 36,900 compared to the 233,000 in Indianapolis. So he was definitely moving to a much different lifestyle. How will he adjust to life on the farm?