When Ernest M Wheeler was born on 22 June 1878, in Woodland Township, Barry, Michigan, United States, his father, Paschal P Wheeler, was 47 and his mother, Elvira C Tyler, was 52. He married Edith June Wheeler on 15 January 1908, in Woodland, Woodland Township, Barry, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Freeport, Irving Township, Barry, Michigan, United States in 1930 and Sunfield Township, Eaton, Michigan, United States in 1940. In 1918, at the age of 40, his occupation is listed as minister in Charlotte, Eaton, Michigan, United States. He died on 2 April 1943, in Caledonia, Kent, Michigan, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Woodland, Woodland Township, Barry, Michigan, United States.
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After the second state capitol had been destroyed, Michigan Governor Henry P. Baldwin initiated the passing of a bill that would cover the costs for a new building. The bill was adopted and raised over $1 million by a six year state income tax. Architect Elijah E. Myers' design named Tuebor, or I will defend, was selected and he was commissioned to design the new capitol building. The renaissance revival brick and sandstone building soared 267 feet from the ground and was dedicated on January 1, 1879.
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.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
English: occupational name for a wheelwright, a maker of wheels (primarily for carts and other vehicles, but also other kinds of wheels, for use in spinning or other manufacturing processes), from Middle English wheler, whegheler, a derivative of Old English hweogol, hweowol, hwēol ‘wheel’.
History: A founder of Salisbury, NH, in 1634 was John Wheeler.
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