When Mary Elizabeth Dayton was born in 1846, in Connecticut, United States, her father, Samuel B. Dayton, was 27 and her mother, Mary E. Husted, was 29. She married Ogden Bogart Cummings on 5 September 1865. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in New York City, New York County, New York, United States in 1880 and Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States in 1900.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
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: variant of Deighton .
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