Documents in Year 1831

Document	Person	State
Photos ~1725-1834	John Vardeman II (Son of William Vardeman I)	Missouri
1766-1847	Morgan Vardeman (Son of John II)	65 years old - Kentucky
Photos 1775-1842	Reverend Jeremiah Vardeman (Son of John Vardeman II)	56 years old - Missouri
Photos 1810-1877	Peter Vardeman II (Son of Thomas Vardeman)	21 years old - Kentucky
Photos 1815-1879	Mary W. Scrogin (Future Wife of Peter II)	16 years old - Kentucky

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Andrew Jackson, Seventh U.S. President

(1829-1837)

Education: "In 1831, the first American comprehensive (and coeducational) high school, offering both English and classical courses of study, opened in Lowell, Massachusetts." Foundations of American Education, Sixth Edition page 136. / L. Dean Webb, Arlene Metha. Published by Pearson Education. 2010 see 1837 for next event...
Native Americans 1831-39:

Relocation of southeastern tribes to Oklahoma (southeast)
Viola, Herman I, North American Indians, Crown Publishers, New York: New York, 1996

Technology: "In 1807, only 15 cotton mills were in operation in the United States; by 1831 there were 801 (cotton) mills employing 70,000 workers." Foundations of American Education, Sixth Edition page 131. / L. Dean Webb, Arlene Metha. Published by Pearson Education. 2010

In 1831 Cyrus Hall McCormick invented the reaper, "a machine that made possible for the first time mechanical harvesting of standing ripe grain." He sold his first reaper ten years later in 1841. By 1847 he had so many sales that he moved his production facility to the frontier town of Chicago. Source: Harvester World 27, no 7 (July 1936).