When Robert Ball was born on 28 October 1880, in Sevier, Tennessee, United States, his father, Osborn Ball, was 38 and his mother, Elizabeth Breeden, was 33. He married Catherine L. "Katie" McMahan on 26 March 1905, in Sevier, Tennessee, United States. He lived in Civil District 1, Sevier, Tennessee, United States for about 40 years and Brown, Wisconsin, United States in 1949. He died on 25 August 1964, in Blount, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Sherwood, Franklin, Tennessee, 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.
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
English: from Middle English bal, ball(e) ‘ball, sphere, globe, round body’ (Old French balle or Old English beall(a)), a nickname for a short, obese person.
English: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a knoll or rounded hill, from the same Middle English word, bal(le) as in 1 above, but applied topographically.
English: from a Middle English adjective ball (weak form balle) in the sense ‘bald’, from ball ‘white streak, bald place’.
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