When Grace Bell Shaw was born in May 1877, in Fulton, Illinois, United States, her father, Oliver Franklin Shaw, was 28 and her mother, Sarah Millard, was 26. She married Perry Krider on 23 December 1900. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Cass Township, Fulton, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Putman Township, Fulton, Illinois, United States for about 40 years. She died on 19 June 1963, at the age of 86, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Lewistown, Fulton, Illinois, 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.
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): from Middle English s(c)hawe, s(c)haghe ‘small wood, grove, thicket’ (Old English sceaga). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a small wood, or habitational, for someone from any of the many places so named. Shaw and Shawe are most frequent in Lancashire and Yorkshire, where Shaw in Oldham (Lancashire) may be a principal source of the surname. The English and Lowland Scottish surname was also established in Ireland in the 17th century.
Scottish: shortened form of various surnames from the Gaelic personal name Sitheach, derived from sithech ‘wolf’.
Irish (Down and Antrim): adopted for Ó Síthigh ‘descendant of Sítheach’, a personal name based on sítheach ‘peaceful’. Compare Sheehy .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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