Brief Life History of Margaret M.
When Margaret M. Mills was born on 13 September 1879, in New Castle, Lawrence, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, James Foster Mills, was 43 and her mother, Mary Ann Van Horn, was 38. She married George Howard Yeakley on 7 September 1902, in Portage, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Martins Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, United States in 1900 and Smith Township, Mahoning, Ohio, United States in 1920. She died on 7 February 1961, in Sebring, Mahoning, Ohio, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Sebring, Mahoning, Ohio, United States.
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- Maggie Mills in household of James F Mills, "United States Census, 1880"
- Maggie Mills, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
- Margaret M. Mills Yeagley, "Find A Grave Index"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Mill 1, with excrescent -s added in post-medieval times. Compare Mullins , from a French equivalent of this name, and see also Milnes .
English: either a variant of Miles , a variant of Mill 2, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or Myhill , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: this is usually the English name, especially in Ulster, but elsewhere in Ireland it was also adopted for the Gaelic topographic byname, an Mhuilinn ‘of the mill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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