When Fanny Isora Copeland was born on 6 September 1878, in Maries, Missouri, United States, her father, Andrew Jackson Copeland, was 30 and her mother, Rachel Charlotte Holman, was 25. She married Isaac Monroe Rowden on 3 November 1895, in Maries, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Rural, Waupaca, Wisconsin, United States in 1935 and Jackson Township, Maries, Missouri, United States in 1940. She died on 20 June 1953, in Rolla, Phelps, Missouri, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Union Hill Cemetery, Vienna, Maries, Missouri, 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.
A fire erupted on January 10, 1883, at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee. The fire began at 4:00 am in an elevator shaft and raced up through the building. The fire spread so quickly that many could not escape. General and Mrs. Tom Thumb, stars of P.T. Barnum's circus, were guests in the hotel at the time of the fire. A firefighter reached them by ladder and they were able to escape safely. The exact number of deaths remains unknown as the hotel register was destroyed in the fire, however, the death toll is estimated between 75-90.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
English and Scottish: habitational name from Copeland in Cumbria or Coupland in Northumberland, both named with Old Norse kaupa-land ‘bought land’, a feature worthy of note during the early Middle Ages, when land was rarely sold, but rather held by feudal tenure and handed down from one generation to the next.
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