When Charles Monroe Sheldon was born on 26 February 1857, in Wellsville, Florida, Montgomery, New York, United States, his father, Rev Stewart George Sheldon, was 33 and his mother, Sarah Ward, was 25. He married Mary Abby Merriam on 20 May 1891. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1927 and lived in Yankton, Yankton, Dakota Territory, United States in 1870 and Shawnee, Kansas, United States in 1900. In 1886, at the age of 29, his occupation is listed as ordained congregational minister. He died on 24 February 1946, in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States, at the age of 88.
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Historical Boundaries: 1862: Yankton, Dakota Territory, United States 1889: Yankton, South Dakota, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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: habitational name in most cases from Sheldon in Derbyshire, but sometimes from Sheldon in Warwickshire or Devon, or from Sheldon in Chippenham (Wiltshire). The Derbyshire place, recorded in Domesday Book as Scelhadun, probably takes its name from Old English scelf ‘rock, ledge, shelf’ + the placename Haddon, itself from Old English hǣth ‘heath’ + dūn ‘hill’. The Warwickshire and Wiltshire placenames probably derive from Old English scelf + dūn, while the Devon placename probably comes from Old English scelf + denu ‘valley’.
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