When Arta Marie Mickley was born on 27 April 1900, in Hamiltonban Township, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, George Oliver Mickley, was 27 and her mother, Laura Virginia Sites, was 22. She married Raymond Danner Hossler on 30 June 1923, in York, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Franklin Township, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States for about 20 years and Cashtown, Hamilton Township, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States in 2002. She died on 5 January 2002, in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, at the age of 101, and was buried in Flohrs Lutheran Church Cemetery, McKnightstown, Franklin Township, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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.
The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
German: unexplained.
Probably also an Americanized form of German Michler or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname.
English (Northamptonshire and Essex): habitational name from any of various places so named, such as Mickley in Ovingham (Northumberland), Mickley in Dronfield Woodhouse (Derbyshire), Mickley in Azerley (Yorkshire), or a lost Mickley in Headingley (West Yorkshire). Most of the placenames derive from Old English micel ‘large, great’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, though the place in Azerley derives from Old English micel + haga ‘enclosure’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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