History of Family and Resource Management

First Marriage

2350 BCE

https://www.inceco.com/en/news-insights/family-matrimonial-history-marriage#:~:text=It%20is%20widely%20agreed%20that,B.C.%20in%20the%20Far%20East.
The earliest recorded marriage with a man and woman was in this time frame.

The First Interracial Marriage

1614

Matoaka, the daughter of a Powhatan chief today commonly known as Pocahontas, married tobacco planter John Rolfe in 1614. After marriage, they were both sentenced to a year in prison.
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/12/1005848169/loving-day-interracial-marriage-legal-origin#:~:text=After%20they%20were%20arrested%2C%20the,Union%20to%20take%20their%20case.

The First Recorded Divorce

1643

The first recorded divorce happened in Massachusetts in 1643, because the husband had two wives.
https://resources.hellodivorce.com/shocking-facts-revealed-about-the-history-of-divorce#:~:text=The%20first%20U.S.%20divorce%2C%20according,on%20the%20basis%20of%20bigamy.

Polygamy was practiced

1830

polygamy is the practice of having more than one wife at a time. founded by Joseph Smith. And brought to the Mormon church.
https://theconversation.com/explaining-polygamy-and-its-history-in-the-mormon-church-81384#:~:text=Beginning%20of%20polygamy,old%20brother%20Alvin%20in%201823.

Ellen Swallow Richards

1842

Ellen was an American chemist of the 19th century. She was the first woman to be admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
https://sciencehistory.org/education/scientific-biographies/ellen-h-swallow-richards/#:~:text=The%20most%20prominent%20female%20American,the%20Massachusetts%20Institute%20of%20Technology.

Ellen Graduated MIT

1873

Ellen was the first woman to graduate from MIT.
https://libraries.mit.edu/mithistory/community/notable-persons/ellen-swallow-richards/

Marriage of Ellen

1875

Ellen Richards married Robert on June 4, 1875.

Ellens Book

1882

The chemistry of cooking and cleaning
Book by Ellen Swallow Richards
for house keepers

American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences

1908

Founded by Ellen Richards. They changed the name in 1894 to AAFCS from the American Home Economics Association.

Ellen Richards Dies

1911

Ellen Swallow Richards Passed away on March 30, 1911

Nuclear Family

1920

A family that contains a husband and wife with children in one household. Dates back to the early 1920's. https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/nuclear-family-history-origin#:~:text=Origin%20of%20'Nuclear%20Family',the%20coiner%20of%20the%20term.