When Winfield Marion Scott Myers was born on 11 December 1878, in Bloomington, Muscatine, Iowa, United States, his father, Lyman George Myers, was 27 and his mother, Rachel Ann Tooman, was 20. He married Minnie Lulu Dickenson on 3 October 1900, in Sullivan, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Silver Creek Township, Cowley, Kansas, United States in 1880 and Judicial Township 4, Imperial, California, United States in 1940. He died on 31 October 1960, in Salinas, Monterey, California, United States, at the age of 81.
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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.
Kansas became the first state to adopt a constitutional amendment which prohibited all alcoholic beverages on February 19, 1881.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Irish (Tipperary, Limerick and Waterford): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Meidhir ‘descendant of Meidhir’, with post-medieval excrescent -s. Meidhir is a personal name based on meidhir ‘mirth’.
English (northern): variant of Myer , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English (northern): habitational name from one or more of the minor placenames derived from Middle English mire ‘marsh’ (Old Norse mýrr) in the plural form, such as Melmerby Mire in Melmerby, or Mires in Docker (both Cumbria).
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