When Charles Walter Fernald was born on 6 January 1870, in Winterport, Waldo, Maine, United States, his father, Albert E. Fernald, was 31 and his mother, Abby Hunt Colburn, was 27. He married Hortense E Rankin on 15 October 1898, in Winterport, Waldo, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 15 June 1909, in Bangor, Penobscot, Maine, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Winterport, Waldo, Maine, United States.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
A federal law which reversed most of the penalties on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.
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.
Altered form of French Fernel, itself a shortened form of a derivative of Old French ferron ‘blacksmith, ironmonger’.
History: This surname was brought to North America from England. It is listed along with its original form Fernel in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors.
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