When Mary Gergen was born in 1858, in Wisconsin, United States, her father, Anton Görgen, was 38 and her mother, Magdalena Schmidt, was 36. She married John Paul Heider on 27 January 1879, in Dodge, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Beaver Dam, Dodge, Wisconsin, United States in 1900 and Janesville, Rock, Wisconsin, United States for about 25 years. She died in 1930, at the age of 72, and was buried in Janesville, Rock, Wisconsin, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
A patent was filed on October 11, 1867, on a new direct action typewriter. The patent was filed by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule who had invented the prototype in Milwaukee.
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.
German: from a variant of the personal name Georg (see George ).
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