Brief Life History of Jennie May
When Jennie May Bainter was born on 27 September 1865, her father, John Minnick Bainter, was 30 and her mother, Louise Ann Huff, was 26. She married Thomas Franklin Spiker on 1 October 1898, in Hancock, Illinois, United States. She lived in Blandinsville, McDonough, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Joliet, Will, Illinois, United States for about 12 years. She died on 3 July 1922, in Hancock, Illinois, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in La Harpe, Hancock, Illinois, United States.
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- Jennie Bainter, "United States Census, 1870"
- Jennie May Spiker, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Jennie Bainter, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
1871
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
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Americanized form of German Bender . Compare Painter .
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