When Lawrence Kern Grist was born on 26 March 1878, in Chippewa Falls, Chippewa, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Thomas Harry Grist, was 37 and his mother, Sarah Asenath Kern, was 28. He married Daisy Connor in 1903, in Chippewa Falls, Chippewa, Wisconsin, United States. He lived in Lafayette, Chippewa, Wisconsin, United States in 1880 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920. He died on 2 January 1957, in Evanston, Uinta, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Evanston, Uinta, Wyoming, 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.
A fire erupted on January 10, 1883, at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee. The fire began at 4:00 am in an elevator shaft and raced up through the building. The fire spread so quickly that many could not escape. General and Mrs. Tom Thumb, stars of P.T. Barnum's circus, were guests in the hotel at the time of the fire. A firefighter reached them by ladder and they were able to escape safely. The exact number of deaths remains unknown as the hotel register was destroyed in the fire, however, the death toll is estimated between 75-90.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English (southern): apparently from the Middle English abstract noun grist ‘grinding’, Old English grist, a derivative of grindan (see Grinder ), so possibly a metonymic occupational name for a miller. The word was not used in the concrete sense of grain to be ground until the 15th century.
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