When Emma Pember Sherer was born on 20 November 1878, in Little Sioux Township, Harrison, Iowa, United States, her father, John Washington Shearer, was 24 and her mother, Margaret Hannah Gamet, was 22. She married Martin Monroe Case on 24 December 1897, in Moorhead, Monona, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Independence, Perkins, South Dakota, United States in 1955 and United States in 1955. She died on 24 April 1955, in Independence, Jackson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Independence, Jackson, 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.
The capitol building in Des Moines originally had a budget of $1,500,000 but complications arose because of the need of a redesign. The building was dedicated on January 17, 1884, but it wasn’t completed until 1886. On January 4, 1904, a fire started and swept through the areas that housed the Supreme Court and Iowa House of Representatives. A major restoration was performed and documented, with the addition of electrical lighting, elevators, and a telephone system. By the early 1980s, the sandstone exterior of the Capitol had started deteriorating and prompted the installation of canopies to protect pedestrians from falling rubble. The entire reconstruction process took around 18 years to complete.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English: variant of Shearer .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from Yiddish sherer ‘barber’.
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