When Ella Stella Cahoon was born about 1865, in Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, United States, her father, Horace Jameson Cahoon, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Lucas, was 28. She married Donald Johnson in 1890, in Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Avon Township, Lorain, Ohio, United States for about 30 years and Elyria Township, Lorain, Ohio, United States in 1940. She died on 17 March 1941, in Sheffield, Lorain, Ohio, United States, at the age of 77.
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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."
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Irish (Down and Antrim): variant (reflecting the traditional pronunciation) of Scottish Colquhoun .
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