When Pansy T Corbin was born on 20 March 1900, in Indiana, United States, her father, Lafayette Doyle Corbin, was 20 and her mother, Grace Elpha Herriman, was 19. She married Carl Earl Francis Butts on 11 May 1918, in Page, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. She lived in Dallas Township, Taylor, Iowa, United States in 1910 and Shenandoah, Page, Iowa, United States in 1920. She died on 22 May 1952, in Scottsbluff, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 52.
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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.
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.
French and English: nickname meaning ‘little crow, raven’, possibly applied to a black haired man, from Old French, Middle English corbin, a diminutive of corb ‘raven’ (Anglo-Norman French corbin, corfbin ‘crow, raven’).
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of the places in Calvados and Orne, France, named Corbon.
Irish: variant of Corban .
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