When Margaret Burnett Veach was born on 4 June 1861, in New Castle, Lawrence, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, George Washington Veach, was 36 and her mother, Laura Calista Burnett, was 22. She lived in Saint Petersburg, Pinellas, Florida, United States in 1920 and Queens, New York, United States in 1930. She died on 27 February 1932, in Long Island City, Queens, New York City, New York, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in New Castle, Lawrence, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
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.
Scottish: variant of Veitch .
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