# data[].attributes.body
Thomas Alva Edison is born in Milan, Ohio on February 11. His parents are Samuel and Nancy Elliott Edison.

# data[].attributes.body
Al goes to school for a short time. His teachers think that he is not very bright. His mother spends time teaching him at home. He also begins to read and to teach himself.

# data[].attributes.body
Civil War ends on April 9. Five days later, President Lincoln is assassinated.

# data[].attributes.body
After making his improved stock ticker, Edison opens a shop in Newark, New Jersey. He hires men to manufacture and sell his stock tickers. Some of these workers, or muckers, help Edison all his life. During this time, he improves the telegraph many times.

# data[].attributes.body
The Edison family moves to Port Huron, Michigan.

# data[].attributes.body
Makes his Quadruplex telegraph.

# data[].attributes.body
Thomas Edison made a
Incandescent lamp.

# data[].attributes.body
He marries Mary Stilwell.

# data[].attributes.body
Edison dies at his home, Glenmont, on October 18, at the age of 84.