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Augusta Hejnik | |
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Born | Augustinam Hejnik December 25, 1799 |
Died | (aged 108 years, 67 days) | March 1, 1908
Known for | Last surviving person born in the 1700s |
Augustinam Hejnek (December 25, 1799 – March 1, 1908) was a German-American centenarian who was the last known surviving person from the 1700s.
The 18th century lasted from January 1, 1701 to December 31, 1800 in the Gregorian calendar. During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the American, French, and Haitian revolutions. This was an age of violent slave trading, and global human trafficking. The reactions against monarchical and aristocratic power helped fuel the revolutionary responses against it throughout the century.
Hejnek was born in Poland on December 25, 1799. [1] She arrived in the United States in 1870, where she lived in Chicago. [1] She then moved to Hull. She married Frank Hejnek, who died in June 1906. She lived with her stepdaughter, Valentine Pionek. By the time her longevity was recognized, her memory had since faded and she could provide very little detail about her early life. An attempt to photograph her was abandoned because she could not keep still long enough for the film to properly develop. Hejnek died March 1, 1908, at the age of 108, and at the time was the last known person born in the 1700s. This left Salome Sellers as the last surviving person from the 18th century (which included the year 1800).
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States or America, is a country composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions. At 3.8 million square miles, the United States is the world's third or fourth largest country by total area and is slightly smaller than the entire continent of Europe's 3.9 million square miles. With a population of over 327 million people, the U.S. is the third most populous country. The capital is Washington, D.C., and the largest city by population is New York City. Forty-eight states and the capital's federal district are contiguous in North America between Canada and Mexico. The State of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east and across the Bering Strait from Russia to the west. The State of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U.S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, stretching across nine official time zones. The extremely diverse geography, climate, and wildlife of the United States make it one of the world's 17 megadiverse countries.
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the most populous city in Illinois and the third most populous city in the United States. With an estimated population of 2,716,450 (2017), it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, the second most populous county in the United States, and the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, which is often referred to as "Chicagoland." The Chicago metropolitan area, at nearly 10 million people, is the third-largest in the United States; the fourth largest in North America ; and the third largest metropolitan area in the world by land area.
Hull is a town in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 5,493 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Casimir and Jordan are located in the town.
Salome Sellers was an American centenarian who was the last known survivor from the 18th century.
The 19th (nineteenth) century was a century that began on January 1, 1801, and ended on December 31, 1900. It is often used interchangeably with the 1800s, though the start and end dates differ by a year.
Emma Martina Luigia MoranoOMRI was an Italian supercentenarian who, before her death at the age of 117 years and 137 days, was the world's oldest living person whose age had been verified, and the last living person to have been verified as being born in the 1800s. She remains the oldest Italian person ever and the second-oldest European person ever behind Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment.