When Pearl Maude VanMeter was born on 2 November 1900, in Knox, Indiana, United States, her father, Charles E Van Meter, was 42 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Pindell, was 35. She married Craven Byrd in 1920, in Knox, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Rural, Washington Township, Randolph, Indiana, United States in 1935 and Busseron Township, Knox, Indiana, United States in 1940. She died on 11 August 1961, at the age of 60, and was buried in Oaktown, Busseron Township, Knox, Indiana, 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.
The town of Gary, Indiana, was founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906. The Gary Works steel mill was the largest integrated mill in North America. The city of Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation and American lawyer and county judge. Gary partnered with J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab to found the United States Steel Corporation.
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Americanized form of Dutch Van Meeteren .
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