When Elsie Marie Penny was born on 23 March 1900, in St. Charles, Saint Charles, Missouri, United States, her father, Charles B Penny, was 35 and her mother, Fanny Manetta Studer, was 26. She married Dallas Julius Smart on 16 November 1919, in St. Charles, Saint Charles, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Portage Township, Saint Charles, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Hurricane Township, Lincoln, Missouri, United States in 1910. She died on 19 April 1955, in Farmington, St. Francois, Missouri, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Parkview Cemetery, Farmington, St. Francois, Missouri, 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.
After the Assassination of William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as the Twenty-sixth President of the United States. During his first term he didn't have a Vice President but for his second term Charles W. Fairbanks filled the position.
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
English:
from Middle English peni, peny ‘penny’ (Old English pening, penig), applied as a nickname, possibly for a person of some substance or for a tenant who paid a rent of one penny. This was the common ancient Germanic unit of value when money was still an unusual phenomenon. It was the only unit of coinage in England until the early 14th century, when the groat and the gold noble were introduced, and was a silver coin of considerable value. There is some evidence that the word was used in Old English times as a byname. This surname is also found in Ireland. Compare Halfpenny , Farthing , Grote , and Shilling .
alternatively, a variant of Penning or Penn .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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