When Clara Amerine was born on 20 January 1880, in Sumner, Kansas, United States, her father, Stephen Kenneth Amrine, was 39 and her mother, Mary Jane Curry, was 35. She married John Dowden Fair on 24 August 1898, in Marshall Township, Taylor, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Grant Township, Cass, Iowa, United States in 1885 and Taylor, Iowa, United States in 1895. She died on 25 May 1946, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 66.
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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.
Kansas became the first state to adopt a constitutional amendment which prohibited all alcoholic beverages on February 19, 1881.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Americanized form of German Amrein .
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