Brief Life History of Maggie Ellen
When Maggie Ellen Creps was born in 1864, in Littlestown, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Joseph Aaron Crabbs, was 31 and her mother, Elmira Sebilla Fisher, was 27.
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · The Assassination of a President
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
1877 · First National Strike in U.S. Begins In Pittsburgh Against Pennsylvania Railroad
Coming out of an economic crisis, everyone was worried when cuts started happening in the railroad. They went on what would the great railroad strike of 1877.
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Americanized form of German Krebs or of its variant Kreps .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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