World Events

Theodore Roosevelt

Building Aswan Dam

Carrier with 1st Chiller

• Aswan Dam was completed in Egypt, making possible the storage of irrigation water for the Nile Valley
• Theodore Roosevelt was president
• Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils were discovered in Hell Creek, Montana
• Willis H. Carrier designed the first system to control temperature and humidity, inventing modern air conditioning
• Cuba won independence from Spain

Life Details

• Charles H. Fielding was born on April 16, 1876 in Virginia.
• Just before coming to Ivy Creek, in 1900, he was living in Poolesville, Maryland and working as a clergyman.
• He married May Rector (born 1885) in 1906.
• In 1918, he registered for the draft for World War I in Nelson County, VA.
• In 1910, they were living in Middlesex Co., Virginia and in 1920, in Dinwiddie County.
• They had at least 3 children, all boys:

• James W. (born 1912)
• Robert V. (born 1918)
• Homer W. (born 1921)