When George Grassmyer was born in January 1880, in Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Elisha Bratton Grassmyer, was 35 and his mother, Elizabeth Hannah Krepps, was 33. He lived in Bratton Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880.
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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.
The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in.
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
Americanized form of German Grassmeyer (or of any of its like-sounding cognates): distinguishing name for a tenant farmer (see Meyer ) who lived by a meadow or, in some cases, was in charge of the communal meadows, from Middle High German gras ‘grass, pasture’. The surname Grassmeyer is very rare in Germany.
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