When Mary Ella Chandler was born on 8 August 1856, in Alstead, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, her father, John Jefferson Chandler, was 53 and her mother, Laura Ann Huntoon, was 34. She married Thomas Alva Cushman on 1 August 1889, in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in New Hampshire, United States in 1870 and Whitman, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States for about 40 years. She died on 17 February 1951, in Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Colebrook Cemetery, Whitman, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln was Elected President of the United States in November of 1860
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
English (of Norman origin): occupational name for a maker and seller of candles, from Anglo-Norman French chandeler ‘maker or seller of candles’ (Old French chandelier, Late Latin candelarius, a derivative of candela ‘candle’). While a medieval chandler no doubt made and sold other articles beside candles, the extended sense of modern English chandler does not occur until the 16th century. The name may also, more rarely, have denoted someone who was responsible for the lighting arrangements in a large house, or else one who owed rent in the form of wax or candles.
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