When Mary Janette Wheeler was born on 9 March 1879, in Lewiston, Cache, Utah, United States, her father, Lorin Wheeler, was 23 and her mother, Dilla Delight Bates, was 21. She married John Oliver McCoy on 16 April 1900, in Butte, Silver Bow, Montana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Jefferson, Montana, United States in 1920 and Jefferson City, Jefferson, Montana, United States in 1930. She died on 3 March 1938, in Twin Bridges, Madison, Montana, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Twin Bridges, Madison, Montana, 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.
In 1883, Marcus Daly established the town of Anaconda, Montana. It was at the same time that the smelting works in Anaconda was established.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
English: occupational name for a wheelwright, a maker of wheels (primarily for carts and other vehicles, but also other kinds of wheels, for use in spinning or other manufacturing processes), from Middle English wheler, whegheler, a derivative of Old English hweogol, hweowol, hwēol ‘wheel’.
History: A founder of Salisbury, NH, in 1634 was John Wheeler.
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