When Johannes Sylvanous Slater was born on 7 November 1875, in Woodhull, Henry, Illinois, United States, his father, Christopher Columbus Slater, was 29 and his mother, Francena Elliott, was 22. He married Mary Elizabeth Owen on 28 June 1900, in Rockwell, Cerro Gordo, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Garfield Township, Calhoun, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Riverton Township, Clay, Iowa, United States in 1910. He died on 25 April 1913, at the age of 37, and was buried in United States.
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The First official World's Fair, was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. 37 Countries provided venues for all to see.
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
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English:
occupational name for someone who lays slates on roofs, from Middle English sclat(t)er, occasionally slater ‘slater’ (a derivative of Old French esclate ‘slate’ + the Middle English agent suffix -er). See also Slate .
in Sussex and adjacent counties, Slater and Slatter are probably post-medieval pronunciations of Slaughter ; there seems to be no medieval evidence in the southern coast counties for the occupational name Slater in 1 above.
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