When Mary Elizabeth Puderbaugh was born on 2 October 1851, in Darke, Ohio, United States, her father, John Allen Puderbaugh, was 41 and her mother, Mary Ann Michael, was 33. She married Amos Collins in December 1873, in Randolph, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Ward Township, Randolph, Indiana, United States in 1880. She died on 2 August 1899, in Randolph, Indiana, United States, at the age of 47.
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The town of Santa Fe was denied their application for a United States Postal Service as a town of Santa Fe, Indiana, was already established. Several meetings were held and the name was changed to Santa Claus, Indiana. The United States Postal Service granted their application. Due to the name, the post office in Santa Claus continues to receive thousands of letters to Santa Claus from children around the world each December.
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Americanized form of German Puderbach (see Buterbaugh ).
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