When John Joseph Wendell was born on 4 July 1879, in Washington, Oregon, United States, his father, Josef Windle, was 45 and his mother, Antonia Shute, was 37. He married Adelheit Beier on 2 December 1903, in Saint Joseph, Yamhill, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 5 years and Glendale Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. In 1909, at the age of 30, his occupation is listed as clerk in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States. He died on 8 October 1948, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.
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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.
In 1858, the Portland Archdiocese established its first cemetery, St. Mary's Cemetery, in Southeast Portland adjacent to Lone Fir Cemetery. By the late 1800s, that site was becoming full and a new site was needed. In 1888, the Archdiocese purchased 100 acres (400,000 m2) in the West Hills and established Mount Calvary Cemetery.[1]
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
German, Swedish, and Danish: variant of Wendel and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this (which can be also of Dutch origin). The surname Wendell is (very) rare in Germany, Sweden, and Denmark.
History: A prominent New Netherland (now NY) merchant family of this name descended from a colonist from Emden, Germany, which was part of the Netherlands in the 17th century.
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