When his grandmother died in 1878, the two brothers were reunited with their father in Paris, who remarried ( a piano teacher ) shortly afterwards.

( He had inherited the roles of Lord of the Manor and rector from his father Francis Swan in 1878.

She cared for her brother John for several years until their father remarried in 1912 to Elizabeth " Lizzie " Fields ( 1878 – 1933 ).

In 1878 Arthur proposed to Margaret, Freeman's oldest daughter, three years his senior, an educated and literate woman, and until now secretary for her father.

Julie's father remarried Sara Kinsbergen ( 1809 – 1878 ) two weeks after his first wife's death, and abandoned his family in 1835.

She learns later — in Book 83, December 29, 1878 — from her father ( but does not apparently accept his statement, as she ignores it here in her preface ) that she was a full-term baby, suggesting that she was conceived before her parents had married and that all the mystification about her date of birth was intended to cover up that embarrassment.

In 1878, the eighteen-year-old enrolled in classes at the Rhode Island School of Design with the monetary help of her absent father, and subsequently supported herself as an artist of trade cards.

The town of Bluford was named after Bluford " Bluf " Green ( 1868 – 1912 ) when he was a small boy by his father Wiley Green ( 1835 – 1878 ), who was the local justice of the peace.

David Jacob Eisenhower, the father of US President Dwight David Eisenhower, lived in a ranch near Hope from 1878 to his enrollment at Lane University.

The town was named for Perry LeFors, who traveled with his father to the Panhandle in 1878 and later became foreman of the Diamond F Ranch, part of the White Deer Lands ( Francklyn Land and Cattle Company ).

He moved to California with his father in 1878 in hopes of finding gold.

* Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. ( 1831 – 1878 ), father of U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt

His father Dmitry Nabokov ( 1827 – 1904 ) was a Justice Minister in the reign of Alexander II from 1878 to 1885, and his mother Maria von Korff ( 1842 – 1926 ) was a Baroness from a prominent Baltic German family in Courland.

Edward Fry was the father of the art critic and artist Roger Fry and the social reformers, Joan Mary Fry ( 1862 – 1955 ), Margery Fry ( 1874 – 1958 ) and Ruth Fry ( 1878 – 1962 ).

His father was Daniel Dole ( 1808 – 1878 ) principal at Punahou School and mother was Emily Hoyt Ballard ( 1808 – 1844 ).

Caillebotte's father was twice widowed before marrying Caillebotte's mother, Céleste Daufresne ( 1819 – 1878 ), who had two more sons after Gustave, René ( 1851 – 1876 ) and Martial ( 1853 – 1910 ).

Caillebotte's sizable allowance, along with the inheritance he received after the death of his father in 1874 and his mother in 1878, allowed him to paint without the pressure to sell his work.

Austin's father, Philip Newton Spare, had been born in Yorkshire in 1857, but had moved to London, where he had gained employment with the City of London Police in 1878, being stationed at Snow Hill Police Station.

John Scott Harrison ( October 4, 1804 – May 25, 1878 ) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio and the only man to be both the son and the father of U. S. Presidents.

Reza's father died suddenly at Alasht on 26 November 1878, having had 10 children, of whom six sons and three daughters survived infancy.

* Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. ( 1831 – 1878 ), banker and father of the U. S. President.

Stephen P. Timoshenko (,, December 22, 1878 – May 29, 1972 ), was a Ukrainian American engineer who is reputed to be the father of modern engineering mechanics.

When his father's health began to fail in 1878, William forsook the stage for more than a year to care for his father in his final illness.

Until his father's death in 1878, Ernest Augustus ' arms in right of the United Kingdom were those of his father ( being the arms of the Kingdom of Hanover differenced by a label gules bearing a horse courant argent ) Upon his father's death, he inherited his arms.

* Elias Magnus Fries ( 1794 – 1878 ), mycologist.

Elias Magnus Fries ( 15 August 1794 – 8 February 1878 ) was a Swedish mycologist and botanist.

In the spring of 1878, Elias Cox and Charles Hollingshead set up a saw mill in Huntington Canyon to provide lumber for the colony.

On the voyage which he made on the Purus River in 1878, the colonizer, João Gabriel de Carvalho Melo, wrote from there to the merchant, Viscount of Santo Elias ( from Pará ), asking him for goods to be sent to the " mouth of the Aquiri River ".

* Elias Magnus Fries ( 1794 – 1878 ), botanist

On 30 June 1878, a feast had been arranged in Paris by official decision to honour the French Republic ( the event was commemorated in a painting by Claude Monet ).

Serbia had gained substantial territory during the Russo-Turkish War, 1877 – 1878, while Greece acquired Thessaly in 1881 ( although it lost a small area back to the Ottoman Empire in 1897 ) and Bulgaria ( an autonomous principality since 1878 ) incorporated the formerly distinct province of Eastern Rumelia ( 1885 ).

At the same time, in October 1908, Austria-Hungary seized the opportunity of the Ottoman political upheaval to annex the de jure Ottoman province of Bosnia-Herzegovina, which it had occupied since 1878 ( see Bosnian Crisis ), and Bulgaria declared itself a fully independent kingdom.

They had a second son, Michel, on 17 March 1878, ( Jean was born in 1867 ).

The Arithmometer, invented in 1820 as a four-operation mechanical calculator, was released to production in 1851 as an adding machine and became the first commercially successful unit ; forty years later, by 1890, about 2, 500 arithmometers had been sold plus a few hundreds more from two arithmometer clone makers ( Burkhardt, Germany, 1878 and Layton, UK, 1883 ) and Felt and Tarrant, the only other competitor in true commercial production, had sold 100 comptometers.

A General Conference of the church in 1878 approved a resolution that declared that the revelations of the Prophet – President Joseph Smith III had equal standing to those previously included in the work.

Baudot received little help from the French Telegraph Administration for his system, and often had to fund his own research, even having to sell the gold medal awarded by the 1878 Exposition Universelle during 1880.

In 1895 he wrote, " I worked for six years perfecting and testing the language, even though it had seemed to me in 1878 that it was already completely ready.

However, in 1878 the club was evicted from the ground by the private owner who ploughed up the paddock because the club had neglected to pay its rent.

Gilbert had referred to the new technology in Pinafore in 1878, only two years after the device was invented and before London even had telephone service.

Although he had received permission in 1876 to continue excavation, Schliemann did not reopen the dig site at Troy until 1878 – 1879, after another excavation in Ithaca designed to locate an actual site mentioned in the Odyssey.

The Knights of Labor had a mixed history of inclusiveness and exclusiveness, accepting women and blacks ( after 1878 ) and their employers as members, and advocating the admission of blacks into local assemblies, but tolerating the segregation of assemblies in the South.

However by 1878, Cardiff Arms Hotel had been demolished.

Subsequent searches failed to recover the " planet " in a different position, and in 1878, CHF Peters, director of the Hamilton College Observatory in New York, showed that the star had not in fact vanished, and that the previous results had been due to human error.

The first official recognition given to the office had only been in the Treaty of Berlin in 1878, when Disraeli signed as " First Lord of the Treasury and Prime Minister of her Britannic Majesty ".

In 1878, Edison applied the term filament to the element of glowing wire carrying the current, although the English inventor Joseph Swan had used the term prior to this.

The idea of using this particular raw material originated from Edison's recalling his examination of a few threads from a bamboo fishing pole while relaxing on the shore of Battle Lake in the present-day state of Wyoming, where he and other members of a scientific team had traveled so that they could clearly observe a total eclipse of the sun on July 29, 1878, from the Continental Divide.

The Republic of Turkey also formally accepted the loss of Cyprus ( which was leased to the British Empire following the Congress of Berlin in 1878, but de jure remained an Ottoman territory until World War I ) as well as Egypt and Sudan ( which were occupied by British forces with the pretext of " putting down the Urabi Revolt and restoring order " in 1882, but de jure remained Ottoman territories until World War I ) to the British Empire, which had unilaterally annexed them on 5 November 1914.

In 1878, the Ganz factory, Budapest, Hungary, began manufacturing equipment for electric lighting and, by 1883, had installed over fifty systems in Austria-Hungary.

At the insistence of the Ottoman leader Talat Pasha, all lands Russia had captured from the Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish War ( 1877 – 1878 ), specifically Ardahan, Kars, and Batumi, were to be returned.

The French navy followed suit in 1878 with Torpilleur No 1, launched in 1878 though she had been ordered in 1875.