When Nellie Streeter was born on 9 May 1864, in Woodland Township, Wright, Minnesota, United States, her father, Levi W Streeter, was 28 and her mother, Margaret Griffin, was 31. She married Hiram Ezra Snodgrass about 1882, in Wright, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Marysville Township, Wright, Minnesota, United States in 1920 and Monticello, Wright, Minnesota, United States in 1930. She died on 16 September 1934, in Wright, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Montrose, Wright, Minnesota, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
After discovering iron ore in the Vermilion Range in North-East of Minnesota, iron mining companies began to come to the area and caused an economic boom to the area of Duluth and to the state as a whole.
English: topographic name from Middle English stret(e) ‘street, Roman road’ (Old English strǣt) + -er, used for someone who lived in the main street of a village or town, by a Roman road, or who came from a place so named, in particular Streat (Sussex). Compare Street .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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