When Bertha A. Niles was born on 14 December 1876, in Georgetown, Georgetown, Madison, New York, United States, her father, Lewis Sherrill Niles, was 26 and her mother, Anna Louisa Stewart, was 24. She married Ernest Lincoln Benedict on 28 February 1900, in Georgetown, Georgetown, Madison, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Lebanon, Madison, New York, United States in 1915 and Lebanon, Lebanon, Madison, New York, United States for about 30 years. She died on 28 November 1955, at the age of 78, and was buried in Lebanon, Lebanon, Madison, New York, United States.
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Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
English: variant of Nile (see Neal ), with post-medieval excrescent -s.
German: possibly a variant of Neils . The surname Niles is very rare in Germany.
History: John Niles from England is known to have been in Dorchester, MA, as early as 1634, before putting down roots in Braintree, MA, where his grandson Samuel was a Congregational minister for many years.
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