When Emma Marie Musselman was born on 16 May 1863, in Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa, United States, her father, Nickolas Dominiker Musselman, was 11860 and her mother, Margaret Sinnamon, was 28. She married Edward Alfred Walton on 11 October 1882, in Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Center Township, Wapello, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Wapello, Iowa, United States in 1895. She died on 7 February 1910, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Normandy, St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
The First official World's Fair, was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. 37 Countries provided venues for all to see.
Americanized form of South German Musselmann:
probably an occupational name for a woodman, from Middle High German müsel ‘log’ + man ‘man’.
altered form of Swiss German Mosimann .
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