When Patrick Frizzell was born on 17 May 1876, in Warren, Tennessee, United States, his father, Austin Frizzell, was 25 and his mother, Sarah Ann Smith, was 28. He married Francis Elizabeth Reeves in 1896, in Marion, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Civil District 15, Hardin, Tennessee, United States in 1900. He died on 8 February 1940, in Boyd, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Dixon Cemetery, Westwood, Boyd, Kentucky, United States.
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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.
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.
Also known as the Chicago World's Fair, The Exposition was held to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World. The centerpiece of the Fair was a large water pool that represented Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic to the Americas. The Fair had a profound effect on new architecture designs, sanitation advancement, and the arts. The Fairgrounds were given the nickname the White City due to its lavish paint and materials used to constuct it. Over 27 million people attended the fair during its six-month of operation. Among many of the invetions exhibited there was the first Ferris wheel built to rival the Eiffel Tower in France.
English and Irish: nickname from Old French fresel, frisel ‘lace, ribbon, braid, brooch, frill, ruff’, for someone with an ornate style of dress, or ‘object of little value’ (a diminutive of frese, of ancient Germanic origin).
Scottish: from Anglo-Norman French fresel ‘strawberry’, an alternative form of Fraser .
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