When Sarah Maria Ridgeway was born on 6 January 1878, in Springfield, Springfield Township, Burlington, New Jersey, United States, her father, Brognard Ney Ridgeway, was 35 and her mother, Mary C English, was 32. She married Edwin Letts Davis on 21 March 1900, in Pointville, New Hanover Township, Burlington, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. She lived in New Hanover Township, Burlington, New Jersey, United States in 1910. She died on 10 May 1962, in Wrightstown, Burlington, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Fort Dix, Burlington, New Jersey, United States.
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Thomas Edison had been seeking to create a more practical and affordable version of the lightbulb, primarily for home use. Edison had attempted several different materials, including platinum and other metals, before ultimately deciding on a carbon filament. On October 21, 1879, Edison finally carried out the first successful test of this new light bulb in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
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.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English: from Middle English rig(g)ewei ‘ridgeway’ (Old English hrycgweg). The surname may be topographic, signifying someone who lived beside a ridgeway, or habitational, signifying someone who lived at one of a number of places so named, for example Ridgeway (Cheshire, Derbyshire, Dorset, Somerset, Staffordshire) and Rudgeway (Gloucestershire).
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