When George Harold Mitchell was born on 8 January 1880, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, his father, Andrew W Mitchell, was 44 and his mother, Helen L. Jones, was 39. He married Sarah "Sadie" Wendell MacFarlane on 3 October 1904, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States for about 20 years and New York City, New York County, New York, United States in 1940. He died on 6 June 1951, in New York City, New York, United States, at the age of 71.
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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.
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English and Scottish: from the vernacular pronunciation in Middle English and Older Scots of the personal name Michael . See Michelson .
English and Scottish: nickname for a big man, from Middle English michel, mechel, muchel ‘big’.
Irish (County Connacht): surname adopted as equivalent of Mulvihill .
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