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John Read 1822 - 1889

John Read was born in 1822. He was in a relationship with Caroline (Ross) Read, and had children John Henry Read and Emmaline Mary (Read) Wiggins. John Read died at age 66 years old on April 26, 1889 in Hobart, TAS Australia, and was buried at Cornelian Bay in New Town, Hobart City Council County.
John Read
1822
April 26, 1889
Hobart, TAS, Australia
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  • 1822

    Birthday

    1822
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  • 04/26
    1889

    Death

    April 26, 1889
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    Cause of death
    Hobart, TAS Australia
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  • Gravesite & Burial

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    Cornelian Bay in New Town, Hobart City Council County, TAS 7008, Australia
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  • Obituary

    The Tasmanian News. Hobart. 27th April 1889. READ. - On Friday, April 26,1889, at his residence, 40 Park street, John Read, builder, after a long and painful illness, in the 68th year of his age.
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Did you know?
In 1822, in the year that John Read was born, on July 3rd, Charles Babbage published a proposal for a forerunner of the modern computer. Called a "difference engine", it calculated logarithms and trigonometric functions. Babbage wanted to eliminate the errors that occurred through the use of human "calculators" by creating a machine to do the same work. While a prototype was begun, it was never completed.
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In 1844, he was 22 years old when on June 6th in London, George Williams set up the first YMCA based on the idea of a healthy "body, mind, and spirit" - what he considered Christian values. Now headquartered in Geneva Switzerland, there are over 57 million worldwide beneficiaries and 125 national associations.
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