England was the leading European colonial power and had already established much of its overseas empire by the beginning of the 19th century. France was second, with its holdings in Southeast Asia and in North Africa, both. of these being established during the 19th century.
Thomas Edison married Mary Stilwell on December 25, 1871 (he was 24, she was 16).   She died on August 9, 1884.   He was married a second time, on February 24, 1886, at â¦the age of 39. His second wife's name was Mina Miller.
A life-long friend of James Madison, he also made Madison his Secretary of State and supported his friend's 1808 bid for the presidency. Dolley Madison-Wife of James Madison. She was a widow, a mother of a son, and sixteen years Madison's junior when she married him in 1794.