When Margaret Girton was born in March 1836, in Greenwood Township, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Richard Green Girton, was 23 and her mother, Elizabeth Watts, was 29. She married George Reece on 26 January 1860, in Millville, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States. She lived in Berwick, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
English: habitational name from any of various places called Girton or Gretton. Gretton in Northamptonshire, as well as Girton in Nottinghamshire and Cambridgeshire, are named from Old English grēot ‘gravel’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. Gretton in Shropshire is named from Old English grēoten ‘gravelly’ + tūn, while Gretton, Gloucestershire, is ‘farmstead (tūn) near Greet (Old English grēote ‘gravelly place’)’.
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