When Edmond Vadis Petro was born on 30 December 1900, in Losantville, Union Township, Randolph, Indiana, United States, his father, Alden Elvin Petro, was 22 and his mother, Cecil Bloom Thornburg, was 21. He lived in United States in 1949 and Evanston, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1950. He died on 15 July 1990, in Fort Bend, Texas, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery, Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States.
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President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
The town of Gary, Indiana, was founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906. The Gary Works steel mill was the largest integrated mill in North America. The city of Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation and American lawyer and county judge. Gary partnered with J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab to found the United States Steel Corporation.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Italian: from a dialect form of the personal name Pietro , from Latin Petrus (see Peter ).
Slovak; Hungarian (Petró): from a pet form of the personal name Peter (Hungarian Péter).
Albanian: from a Greek-influenced variant of the personal name Pjetër (see Peter , compare Petros ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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