When Emile Kellogg Boisot was born on 26 February 1859, in Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa, United States, his father, Louis Daniel Boisot, was 35 and his mother, Albertina Bush, was 33. He married Lilly Woodbury Reid on 4 November 1891, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1880 and La Grange, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1900. He died on 1 February 1941, in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 81.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The Chicago water tower was built out of Lemont limestone by William W. Boyington and was used for firefighting and also drawing clean water from Lake Michigan. The tower gained prominence after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Some believe that the tower was the only building to survive the Great Chicago Fire, but a few other buildings survived alongside the tower. The tower has become a symbol of old Chicago and how the city recovered from the fire. The tower has undergone only two renovations since 1913.
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 (London): nickname for a pig-slaughterer, from Middle English kille + hog(ge).
History: Daniel Kellogg (1630–88), from Great Leighs, Essex, England, settled in Norwalk, CT, in 1656. His son, Edward (1790–1858), was a financial reformer and the intellectual father of Greenbackism (a movement favoring promotion of economic growth by increasing the paper money supply, regardless of the inflationary side effects).
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