When Josephine Surprise was born in April 1856, in Lockport, Niagara, New York, United States, her father, Samuel Surprise, was 24 and her mother, Rosella Goyette, was 25. She married Charles Lorenzo Benjamin on 28 January 1874, in Clinton, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1910 and Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930. She died in 1940, in California, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Westminster Memorial Park, Westminster, Orange, California, United States.
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Iwan Ries and Company is one of the oldest family owned tobacco companies in North America and was originally owned by Edward Hoffman. Realizing that he could not run the company alone, Hoffman recruited his nephew, Iwan Ries to join him. The name of the Company changed from E. Hoffman and Co. when Edward Hoffman retired in 1898.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Canadian Surprenant . Compare Suprise .
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