When Matilda May "Tillie" Sample was born on 30 December 1880, in Spring Valley, Fillmore, Minnesota, United States, her father, John Arthur Sample, was 25 and her mother, Martha Jane Davidson, was 20. She married Charles Newall Washburn on 27 May 1905, in Spring Valley, Fillmore, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Stephenson, Menominee, Michigan, United States in 1910 and Manitoba, Canada in 1916. She died on 3 July 1959, in San Jose, Santa Clara, California, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in San Jose, Santa Clara, California, United States.
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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.
After discovering iron ore in the Vermilion Range in North-East of Minnesota, iron mining companies began to come to the area and caused an economic boom to the area of Duluth and to the state as a whole.
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.
English (northeastern): of Norman origin, a habitational name from any of numerous places in northern France named Saint-Paul or Saint-Pol, for example in Pas-de-Calais, Nord, and Finistère, so called from the dedication of their churches to Saint Paul.
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