When Ethel Dillman Mitchell was born on 26 June 1880, in Illinois, United States, her father, William Eries Mitchell, was 47 and her mother, Martha Dispennett, was 39. She married Samuel Albert Dean on 24 June 1900, in Crawford, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Willow Hill, Jasper, Illinois, United States in 1920 and Hunt City, Jasper, Illinois, United States in 1930. She died in April 1957, at the age of 76, and was buried in Mound Cemetery, Hunt City Township, Jasper, 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.
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
English and Scottish: from the vernacular pronunciation in Middle English and Older Scots of the personal name Michael . See Michelson .
English and Scottish: nickname for a big man, from Middle English michel, mechel, muchel ‘big’.
Irish (County Connacht): surname adopted as equivalent of Mulvihill .
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