When Edward Maughan Atkin was born on 30 October 1864, in Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States, his father, Thomas Atkin Jr., was 31 and his mother, Mary Ann Maughan, was 25. He married Ann Janette Smith on 16 December 1886. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 4 September 1926, in Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Tooele City Cemetery, Tooele, Tooele, Utah, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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.
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: from the Middle English personal name Atkin (composed of Ade + the diminutive suffix -kin). This is one of the many medieval pet forms of Adam . Compare Scottish Aitken .
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