When Floral Elsie Roberts was born on 7 November 1878, in Montgomery Township, Crawford, Illinois, United States, her father, PVT Thomas Graham Roberts , UA, was 37 and her mother, Ellen Orlena Shaw, was 30. She married Charles Albert Taylor on 24 January 1899, in Piatt, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Arcola, Douglas, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Lowe Township, Moultrie, Illinois, United States for about 40 years. She died on 29 December 1963, in Arthur, Douglas, Illinois, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Arthur, Douglas, 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: from the personal name Robert , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also occasionally borne by Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname.
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