When Ossie Mae Bowers was born on 8 April 1900, in Wythe, Virginia, United States, her father, John Huander Bowers, was 32 and her mother, Nancy Evelyn Sexton, was 23. She had at least 3 sons and 1 daughter with Floyd Bishop Cline. She lived in Elk Creek, Grayson, Virginia, United States in 1910 and Speedwell District, Wythe, Virginia, United States in 1940. She died on 17 April 1980, in Speedwell, Wythe, Virginia, United States, at the age of 80.
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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.
Maggie Lena Walker was the first African American and woman to open a bank. She opened the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank on August 20, 1901. She encouraged the young people to start saving their pennies in her bank and when they hit a hundred pennies they could start a bank account with the bank.
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
English: variant of Bower , with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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