When Doctor Taw Dillon was born on 1 November 1877, in Crossroads, Franklin County, Virginia, United States, his father, William Henry Dillon, was 39 and his mother, Mary Catherine Holland, was 35. He married Mary Ann Durbin on 25 February 1907, in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. He lived in Franklin, Virginia, United States in 1880 and Deer Creek Township, Carroll, Indiana, United States in 1900. He registered for military service in 1904. He died on 28 October 1913, in Ray, Williams, North Dakota, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Highland Cemetery, Ray, Williams, North Dakota, 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.
Historical Boundaries: 1886: Flannery, Dakota Territory, United States 1889: Flannery, North Dakota, United States 1891: Williams, North Dakota, United States
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
English, Irish, and French: from the Norman French personal name Dillon, arising from the ancient Germanic Dillo (of uncertain origin, perhaps a byname from the root dil- ‘destroy’).
English: habitational name from Dilwyn in Herefordshire, recorded in 1138 as Dilun, probably from Old English dīglum, dative plural of dīgle ‘settlement at the shady or secret places’.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duilleáin ‘descendant of Duilleán’, a personal name, a variant of Dallán meaning ‘little blind one’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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