When William Thomas Merrill was born on 20 February 1879, in Glen Rose, Somervell, Texas, United States, his father, Lemuel Pruitt Merrill, was 30 and his mother, Mary Alice Pollard, was 30. He married Myrtle Maggie Matthews on 16 November 1902, in Somervell, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Stephenville, Erath, Texas, United States for about 25 years and Justice Precinct 1, Harris, Texas, United States in 1940. He died on 16 October 1941, in Harris, Texas, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Stephenville, Erath, Texas, United States.
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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.
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.
Welsh and English: from a female personal name of Celtic origin, found in Welsh as Meriel and Meryl and in Irish as Muirgheal, earlier Muirgel (‘sea-bright’).
English: habitational name from one or more of the many places whose names derive from Middle English mirie, merie, murie ‘merry, pleasant’ (Old English myrge) + hill, hell, hull ‘hill’ (Old English hyll), including two places called Merry Hill in Staffordshire and a third in Hertfordshire.
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