When William Caselton Gibson was born on 17 January 1856, in Modena, Mercer, Missouri, United States, his father, Garrett Gibson Captain, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth Akers, was 28. He married Matilda Caroline Rector on 2 April 1882, in Leon, Decatur, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa, United States in 1900 and High Point, Decatur, Iowa, United States in 1910. He died on 7 May 1936, in Garden Grove, Decatur, Iowa, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Leon, Decatur, Iowa, United States.
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The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
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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.
English: from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Gibb (a pet form of Gilbert) + son, hence ‘son of Gibb’. The name is very common in Ireland, having arrived in that country in the 17th century. It is also occasionally adopted for Ó Gibealláin, see Giblin .
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