When Christina Almira Oakley was born on 28 April 1878, in Mayfield, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Frederick F. Oakley, was 25 and her mother, Almira Frances Kenyon, was 33. She married Harry Niles Dolph on 9 December 1896, in Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Fell Township, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880 and Schenectady, Schenectady, New York, United States in 1905. She died on 21 February 1961, in McAllen, Hidalgo, Texas, United States, at the age of 82.
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Grenville M. Dodge oversaw the construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway. Work began at Hodge Junction, and eventually extended to the New Mexico border by 1888. Service began on April 1, 1888, with trains travelling between Fort Worth and Denver.
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.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English (mainly West Midlands): habitational name from any of numerous places called Oakley, Oakle, or Oakleigh, in Bedfordshire, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Somerset, Suffolk, or Wiltshire. The placenames derive from Old English āc ‘oak’ + lēah ‘open woodland’.
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