When Mary Melinda Shoemaker was born on 2 July 1864, in Butler, Pendleton, Kentucky, United States, her father, Newton Shomaker, was 22 and her mother, Emily Jane Taylor, was 19. She married Henry Lloyd Connelly on 20 February 1884, in Romine Township, Marion, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Romine Township, Marion, Illinois, United States for about 10 years and Elk Prairie Township, Jefferson, Illinois, United States in 1930. She died on 6 January 1935, in Farmington, St. Francois, Missouri, United States, at the age of 70.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
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.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Dutch Schoemaker , German and Jewish Schumacher , Slovenian Šuštar (see Sustar ) or Greek Papoutsis .
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