When Matilda Hughes was born on 30 November 1863, in Honolulu, Oahu, Kingdom of Hawaii, her father, Thomas Hughes, was 35 and her mother, Matilda Collins, was 27. She married John Lewis Blaisdell on 27 July 1885, in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 5 October 1889, in Kingdom of Hawaii, at the age of 25, and was buried in O'ahu Cemetery, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, 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."
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
English and Welsh: variant of Hugh with genitival or excrescent -s.
Irish and Scottish: adopted as an equivalent of Gaelic surnames based on the personal name Aodh ‘fire’, for example Ó hAodha, Mac Aodha; see McCoy and compare McHugh .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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