When Virginia Eliza Taplin was born on 11 March 1876, in Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Charles Carroll Taplin, was 32 and her mother, Harriet Drown, was 26. She married William Jason Batchelder on 26 June 1900, in Plymouth, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 24 July 1965, in Shelburne, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Arms Cemetery, Shelburne Falls, Shelburne, Franklin, Massachusetts, 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.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English:
probably from Middle English Tolpayn, which may be a nickname for a miller, from Middle English tollen ‘to exact a charge on (something)’ + Middle English (Old French) pain ‘bread’, though the tolls that the miller exacted were on the flour he ground not the bread that was made from it. Alternatively, if -payne is a spelling of Middle English (Old French) peine ‘tax’, it may instead be a nickname for a tax collector.
perhaps a variant of Tapley .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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