Brief Life History of Henry
When Henry Fite was born in 1879, in Arkansas, United States, his father, Lemuel Moses Fite, was 33 and his mother, Hannah Lemmons, was 30. He lived in Shaw, Saline, Arkansas, United States in 1880.
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- Henry Fite in household of Lemuel Fite, "United States Census, 1880"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded
The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of German Veit or Veith or one of its Dutch variants such as Feijt and Fijt.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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