Timeline- Test 2 Flashcards
Virginia Colony Founded.
1607
Remains wrapped in blanket or cerecloth/windeing sheet
1607-1650
Anglican church dominates funeralization (church sexton)
1607-1776
Massachusetts Bay Colony founded (Theocracy)
1620
Puritan funeral customs are models of simplicity and dignity.
1620-1713
- Handmade wooden coffins becoming more common.
- Inviters to funerals- licensed position in local governments.
1650-1700
Farm wagon used as hearse.
1650-1800
Layers out of the dead advertised in directories.
1700
Increase in social character and prestige of funerals.
1700-1800
Start of town undertakers.
1750
The Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Embargo Acts spawn the industrial revolution.
1775-1814
Michael Jenkins, town undertaker and coroner- conflict of interest.
1799
Pre Civil War hearse.
1800-1865
Mostly cooling boards and refridgeration.
1830-1880
First American patent on metal coffin.
1836
- Dr. Richard Harlan translates Gannal’s book into English.
- Start of furnishing undertakers.
1840
Fisk Metallic Burial Case patented.
1848
Dr. Thomas Holmes comes to the scene- Father of American Embalming.
1850
Civil War- Embalming gets a big boost.
1861-1865
- “Order concerning embalmers” passed because of Dr. Richard Burr
- Start of professionalism in “funeral undertaking.”
1865
Post Civil War Funeral car.
1865-1910
Fluids gradually change from metallic salts to formalin.
1865-1920
Start of mass production of cloth covered wood and metal coffins by furnishing undertakers.
1870-1900
Era of funeral trolley cars.
1890-1925
Crane, Breed & Co. “church on wheels” at Chicago’s World Fair.
1893
First motorized hearses.
1901-1907
Ambulance.
1909
Limousine Hearses
1920
