When Maggie J. Hill was born in February 1880, in Prescott, Linn, Kansas, United States, her father, William Ellsworth "Elzey" Hill, was 41 and her mother, Josephine Brooks, was 36. She married John Shirley Long on 7 November 1894, in Butler, Bates, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Osage Township, Bates, Missouri, United States in 1900. She died on 4 October 1916, in Crawford, Kansas, United States, at the age of 36, and was buried in Girard, Crawford, Kansas, 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.
Kansas became the first state to adopt a constitutional amendment which prohibited all alcoholic beverages on February 19, 1881.
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
English: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a hill, from Middle English hill, hell, hull ‘hill’ (Old English hyll). Compare Hiller . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
English: possibly in some cases from the personal name Hille, a pet form of some name such as Hilger or Hillary .
German: from a short form of Hildebrand or any of a variety of other names, male and female, containing ancient Germanic hild ‘battle’ as the first element.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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