When Zetta Ann Leonard was born on 12 January 1879, in Potomac, Vermilion, Illinois, United States, her father, Berry Franklin Leonard, was 23 and her mother, Emma Jane "Emily" Swisher, was 17. She married Charles Villars on 17 November 1897, in Rossville, Vermilion, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Middlefork Township, Vermilion, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Rossville, Vermilion, Illinois, United States in 1940. She died on 27 January 1953, in Ross Township, Vermilion, Illinois, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Spring Hill Cemetery, Danville, Vermilion, Illinois, 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.
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English; French (Léonard); Walloon (mainly Léonard): from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements leo ‘lion’ (a late addition to the vocabulary of ancient Germanic name elements, taken from Latin) + hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’, which was taken to England by the Normans. A Christian saint of this name, who is supposed to have lived in the 6th century, but about whom nothing is known except for a largely fictional life dating from half a millennium later, was popular throughout Europe in the early Middle Ages and was regarded as the patron of peasants and horses. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Italian Leonardo , Polish, Slovenian, etc. Lenart or Lenard , and probably also their derivatives. Compare Larned , Learned , and Yenor .
Irish (Fermanagh): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Fhionáin or of Langan .
German: variant of Leonhard , cognate with 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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