When Henry F Stohlmeyer was born in August 1858, in Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin, United States, his father, John Henry Stohlmeyer, was 39 and his mother, Mary Ann Fecht, was 28. He married Elizabeth M Pluemer on 7 November 1893, in Grant, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 21 June 1945, at the age of 86, and was buried in Tennyson, Grant, Wisconsin, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
A patent was filed on October 11, 1867, on a new direct action typewriter. The patent was filed by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule who had invented the prototype in Milwaukee.
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 perennially popular given name, of Continental Germanic origin, from haim ‘home’ + rīc ‘power, ruler’. It was an Old French name, adopted by the Normans and introduced by them to Britain. It has been borne by eight kings of England. Not until the 17th century did the form Henry (as opposed to Harry ) become the standard vernacular form, mainly under the influence of the Latin form Henricus and French Henri.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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