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New England man had oldest birth date ever to be photographed
New Market Press VT ^ | Thursday, July 25, 2013 | News & Staff Reports

Posted on 05/30/2014 4:00:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Conrad Heyer crossed the Delaware with Washington... was born in 1749 and was 103 when he was photographed, He was the earliest born man in history to have been photographed. Heyer crossed the Delaware River with George Washington in 1776.

Conrad Heyer was born in 1749 and was 103 when he was photographed, He was the earliest born man in history to have been photographed. Heyer crossed the Delaware River with George Washington in 1776.

New Englander Conrad Heyer was born in 1749 and was 103 when he was photographed.

According to the Maine Historical Society, Heyer may be the earliest born human being ever photographed. He is also the only U.S. veteran to be photographed who crossed the Delaware River alongside George Washington in December 1776.

This only photograph of Heyer, which was taken roughly around 1852 (but not the earliest photograph taken), is a significant discovery.

Heyer appears to have been the first white child born in Waldoboro, Maine, which was then a German immigrant community.

Heyer served in the Continental Army under Washington during the Revolutionary War; he crossed the Delaware with the first president and fought in several major battles.

Records indicate that Heyer saw George Washington, the 'Father of Our Country', with his own eyes.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
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To: SunkenCiv

He had a dream the night before; and saw what Obama would one day do to his nation.


41 posted on 05/30/2014 5:05:49 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Obama lied; our healthcare died.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I know, It was just that.....never mind.\s


42 posted on 05/30/2014 5:07:04 PM PDT by slouper (LWRC SPR 223)
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To: Rockpile

Helen Thomas?


43 posted on 05/30/2014 5:09:11 PM PDT by heye2monn (MO)
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To: JPG

There are two people in that image. One getting his shoes shined, one shining them. How did the other guy get missed, even if he isn’t as clear because of movement?


44 posted on 05/30/2014 5:12:27 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel; tet68

Washington and many of his associates didn’t long outlive the Revolution, of course even then there were people who lived freakishly long times. The last of the Pilgrims had arrived as a young girl, and long after everyone who could gainsay her had died, claimed that she was actually in the first boat, and sprang out before anyone else, including their leader, who was pissed about it. One of my 17th c pioneer ancestors exceeded a century in age when she passed.


45 posted on 05/30/2014 5:15:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv
Interesting thanks!
46 posted on 05/30/2014 5:18:40 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: TurboZamboni

“he looks pissed off.”

He’s thinking, “We should pick our own cotton.”


47 posted on 05/30/2014 5:26:05 PM PDT by Holen1
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To: TurboZamboni
You'll be pissed off too if you live to 103.

On the serious side he looks pretty good for 103 and crossing the Delaware with Gen. Washington is a much bigger deal than being the earliest born person to be photographed IMO.

48 posted on 05/30/2014 5:26:14 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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To: gorush

One of the minor “might have beens” is the mid-century German rocket program. There’s an anecdote regarding a wartime bon mot by Von Braun — someone asked him if he still planned to go the Moon, and he replied, of course, we just haven’t told der fuhrer. Had Hitler been different, he might have been satisfied with demonstrations of technological superiority, in which case, the Germans would have orbited someone by 1950, been on the Moon in 1960, and been on Mars sometime in the 1970s.

Von Braun saw the Moon as a step (and as practice) toward getting to Mars, his real goal. Mars was seen as the only place possible for Earthlings to colonize, even then, quite a precocious view. The F-1 engine was built to deliver Ed Teller’s big-assed H-bomb design, but after a much smaller design was successfully tested, the DoD dumped the F-1. Von Braun took his baby with him, eventually wound up with NACA, which was shortly afterward renamed NASA, all this during the Eisenhower administration. When JFK got into office, the US already had available the 1.5 million pound thrust engine that was indispensible for the lunar trips.

Von Braun’s Mars missions were going to use the Saturn V booster. Twelve launches would have been needed to assemble the mission in Earth orbit (the main reason, btw, that I always laughed and still do about the “Mars Direct” scenario, which claims a Mars mission can be done with a single launch using a “Saturn V or better”), and gravity would have been simulated by spinning the crew, in order to avoid the speculated (turns out true) degradation of bone density etc from long term exposure to microgravity.


49 posted on 05/30/2014 5:28:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: VanDeKoik

Thanks, I’ll look at that in a minute. Years ago there was a book published in France (and in English translation) consisting of photos of Napoleonic War veterans who were still around during the years of Napoleon III’s French republic.


50 posted on 05/30/2014 5:31:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: ansel12

The country, like a person, had its future ahead of it when it was young, and has its future behind it when it gets older.


51 posted on 05/30/2014 5:33:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Ditter

My pleasure!


52 posted on 05/30/2014 5:34:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: VanDeKoik

There’s a second volume...

http://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Muster-Volume-Revolution/dp/1606351826


53 posted on 05/30/2014 5:35:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

The country didn’t last long enough to get old.


54 posted on 05/30/2014 5:35:15 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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To: SunkenCiv

FYI

I think there was a thread with a link to photos of revolutionary war vets, posted since I signed up.


55 posted on 05/30/2014 5:36:54 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Benghazi)!!!)
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To: Rockpile

I think the 120 that could be proved by the Census records is accurate, and the rest is error...and that’s still the oldest at some point.


56 posted on 05/30/2014 5:37:06 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: TomGuy

ditto


57 posted on 05/30/2014 5:40:15 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Benghazi)!!!)
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To: SunkenCiv
Had Hitler been different, he might have been satisfied with demonstrations of technological superiority, in which case, the Germans would have orbited someone by 1950, been on the Moon in 1960, and been on Mars sometime in the 1970s.

Ask any well-informed adult you might know what their position is on "speculative history."

58 posted on 05/30/2014 5:41:04 PM PDT by publius911 ( Politicians come and go... but the (union) bureaucracy lives and grows forever.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I just finished a book on all of the nuclear accidents that have occurred from it’s inception to Fukushima...very interesting.
http://www.audible.com/pd/History/Atomic-Accidents-Audiobook/B00I2U1NLA
If you’re looking for something...


59 posted on 05/30/2014 5:46:43 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: JPG

Looks like he’s playing the “stomp on” game, more recently subsumed by the current “knockout” game.


60 posted on 05/30/2014 5:56:54 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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