When Charles Washington Murray was born on 19 November 1877, in Salem, Dent, Missouri, United States, his father, James Alexander Murray, was 24 and his mother, Louisana Peck, was 21. He married Mabel Celia Walters on 21 December 1904, in Danville, Vermilion, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He lived in Hardin, Big Horn, Montana, United States in 1935 and Election District 4, Albany, Wyoming, United States in 1940. He died on 12 October 1953, in Rawlins, Carbon, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Rawlins, Carbon, Wyoming, 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.
Historical Boundaries: 1888: Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, United States
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.
Scottish: habitational name from Moray in northeastern Scotland, which derives from Celtic mori- ‘sea’ + treb- ‘settlement’. The founder of the Scottish house of Murray was a Fleming named Freskin who was granted Strathbrock in West Lothian and Duffus in Moray by David I. The family took its name from the region in the late 12th century.
Irish and Scottish: shortened form of McMurray .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muireadhaigh ‘descendant of Muireadhach’ a personal name meaning ‘mariner’. Occasionally it may be a shortened form of McMurray .
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