E. M. Lewis
Ellen M. Lewis( professionally known as E. M. Lewis) is an American playwright, teacher, and opera librettist based in Oregon.
Mary Arthur McElroy
Mary McElroy(" née" Arthur; July 5, 1841 – January 8, 1917) was the sister of the 21st President of the United States, Chester A. Arthur, and served as a hostess( acting as the First Lady) for his administration( 1881–1885).
She assumed the role because Arthur's wife, Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, had died nearly two years earlier.
Chester A. Arthur
Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 – November 18, 1886) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 21st president of the United States from 1881 to 1885.
He previously was the 20th vice president of the United States, and he succeeded to the presidency upon the death of President James A. Garfield in September 1881, two months after Garfield was shot by an assassin.
Arthur was born in Fairfield, Vermont, grew up in upstate New York, and practiced law in New York City.
He served as quartermaster general of the New York Militia during the American Civil War.
Following the war, he devoted more time to Republican politics and quickly rose in New York Senator Roscoe Conkling's political machine.
Appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant to the lucrative and politically powerful post of Collector of the Port of New York in 1871, Arthur was an important supporter of Conkling and the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party.
In 1878, the new president, Rutherford B. Hayes, fired Arthur as part of a plan to reform the federal patronage system in New York.
When Garfield won the Republican nomination for president in 1880, Arthur, an eastern Stalwart, was nominated for vice president to balance the ticket.
Four months into his term, Garfield was shot by an assassin; he died 11 weeks later, and Arthur assumed the presidency.
At the outset, Arthur struggled to overcome a negative reputation as a Stalwart and product of Conkling's machine.
To the surprise of reformers, he took up the cause of civil service reform.
Arthur advocated and enforced the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act.
He presided over the rebirth of the United States Navy, but was criticized for failing to alleviate the federal budget surplus, which had been accumulating since the end of the Civil War.
Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which resulted in denying citizenship to Chinese Americans until 1898 and barring Chinese immigration until 1943.
Building on the 1875 Page Act, which barred Chinese women from entering the country, it was the first total ban on a nation or ethnic group from immigrating to the country.
Suffering from poor health, Arthur made only a limited effort to secure the Republican Party's nomination in 1884; he retired at the close of his term.
Journalist Alexander McClure later wrote, "No man ever entered the Presidency so profoundly and widely distrusted as Chester Alan Arthur, and no one ever retired ...
more generally respected, alike by political friend and foe."
Although his failing health and political temperament combined to make his administration less active than a modern presidency, he earned praise among contemporaries for his solid performance in office.
The "New York World" summed up Arthur's presidency at his death in 1886: "
No duty was neglected in his administration, and no adventurous project alarmed the nation."
Mark Twain wrote of him, "[I]t would be hard indeed to better President Arthur's administration.
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Over the 20th and 21st centuries, however, Arthur's reputation mostly faded among the public.
William Lewis Herndon
Commander William Lewis Herndon (25 October 1813 – 12 September 1857) was one of the United States Navy's outstanding explorers and seamen.
In 1851 he led a United States expedition to the Valley of the Amazon, and prepared a report published in 1854 and distributed widely as "Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon".
He was noted especially for ensuring the rescue of 152 women and children when commanding the commercial mail steamer "Central America" in September 1857.
During a three-day hurricane off the coast of North Carolina, the ship lost power.
Herndon arranged for getting some women and children safely off the ship to another vessel.
With no way to save the ship, Herndon chose to stay with more than 400 passengers and crew who drowned as the ship sank off Cape Hatteras on September 12.
It was the largest loss of life in a commercial ship disaster in United States history.
Two years later his daughter Ellen Lewis Herndon married Chester A. Arthur, the future U.S. President.
Mary Arthur McElroy
Mary McElroy(" née" Arthur; July 5, 1841 – January 8, 1917) was the sister of the 21st President of the United States, Chester A. Arthur, and served as a hostess( acting as the First Lady) for his administration( 1881–1885).
She assumed the role because Arthur's wife, Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, had died nearly two years earlier.
Nell Arthur
Ellen Lewis "Nell" Arthur ("née" Herndon; August 30, 1837 – January 12, 1880) was the wife of the 21st President of the United States, Chester A. Arthur.
She died of pneumonia in January 1880; her husband was elected vice-president that November.
He succeeded to the presidency in September 1881 when President James Garfield was assassinated.
Motherland (disambiguation)
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E. M. Lewis
Ellen M. Lewis( professionally known as E. M. Lewis) is an American playwright, teacher, and opera librettist based in Oregon.
Vance DeGeneres
Vance DeGeneres( born September 2, 1954) is an American actor, comedian, musician, film producer and screenwriter, known for his work in television.
He is the older brother of Ellen DeGeneres.

Question: Where did Nell Arthur's husband die?
Answer: New York