When Bertha Stillwell was born on 1 January 1877, in Camden, Gloucester, New Jersey, United States, her father, Charles Glenmore Stillwell, was 30 and her mother, Jennett Hooper, was 30. She married William Hullings on 7 March 1896, in Camden, Gloucester, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Burlington, Burlington, New Jersey, United States in 1920 and Haddonfield, Camden, New Jersey, United States in 1930. She died on 11 May 1948, in Newark, Essex, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Asbury United Methodist Church Cemetery, Westfield, Cinnaminson Township, Burlington, New Jersey, United States.
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Thomas Edison had been seeking to create a more practical and affordable version of the lightbulb, primarily for home use. Edison had attempted several different materials, including platinum and other metals, before ultimately deciding on a carbon filament. On October 21, 1879, Edison finally carried out the first successful test of this new light bulb in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
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 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: habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, probably in Surrey. The placename derives from Middle English stighel, stile ‘stile’ + welle ‘well, spring, stream’. Compare Stile .
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