When Mary Worthington Butts was born on 6 October 1879, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, her father, Clark Irving Butts, was 32 and her mother, Mary Beadle Worthington, was 25. She married Percy Jackson Morgan on 8 October 1898, in Lorain, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States in 1920 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930. She died on 13 December 1962, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States.
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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.
Originally called the Western Reserve School of Design for Women, the Cleveland School of Art is a co-educational school that has highlighted its students works in different arts and designs. After World War II, the school began offering a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and soon after became the Cleveland Institute of Art. The school today offers 17 different artistic programs all year long.
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.
variant of Butt , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
topographic name from Middle English buttes, either a reference to the short ridges of plowed land at the edge of a common arable field, or the plural form of butt ‘tree stump’ or ‘mound, hillock, archery butt’. See Butt 2.
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