When Frank Winchell was born on 16 February 1878, in Clover Valley, Box Elder, Utah, United States, his father, John Franklin Winchell, was 25 and his mother, Melinda Jane Lowe, was 24. He married Birdie Josephine Drown on 22 May 1905, in Elko, Elko, Nevada, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 8 October 1961, in Elko, Elko, Nevada, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Starr Valley, Elko, Nevada, 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.
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English: from Old English wencel ‘child’, perhaps used to distinguish a son from his father with the same personal name or perhaps a nickname for a person with a baby face or childlike manner.
Scottish: habitational name from the lands of Windshiel (formerly Winscheill) in Berwickshire.
Americanized form of Jewish Winschel .
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