When Mary Ann Stack was born about 1851, in New Brunswick, Canada, her father, Thomas Stack, was 34 and her mother, Abigail Cody, was 31. She married Charles Gammon on 7 May 1867, in Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Oxford, Maine, United States in 1920 and Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States in 1930.
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The British North America Act or Constitution Act of 1867 caused three British colonies, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Canada to be united as one under the name Canada. Until this point New Brunswick had been the British crown colony.
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.
English: nickname from Middle English stak(ke), stack(e) ‘haystack’ (Old Norse stakkr), perhaps used either for someone who built haystacks, or for a hefty, well-built person. The surname is now less common in England than in Ireland (especially County Kerry), where it was first taken in the 13th century and has been Gaelicized as Stac.
German: variant of Staack .
Americanized form of Polish or Czech Stach .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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