When Douglas Earle Packard was born on 30 August 1879, in Holway, Taylor, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Jonas Fuller Packard, was 46 and his mother, Julia Leslie, was 37. He married Elizabeth Anderson on 20 December 1924, in Decatur, Macon, Illinois, United States. He lived in Hammel, Taylor, Wisconsin, United States in 1900 and Wisconsin, United States in 1905. He died on 7 July 1932, in Curtiss, Clark, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Curtiss, Clark, Wisconsin, 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.
A fire erupted on January 10, 1883, at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee. The fire began at 4:00 am in an elevator shaft and raced up through the building. The fire spread so quickly that many could not escape. General and Mrs. Tom Thumb, stars of P.T. Barnum's circus, were guests in the hotel at the time of the fire. A firefighter reached them by ladder and they were able to escape safely. The exact number of deaths remains unknown as the hotel register was destroyed in the fire, however, the death toll is estimated between 75-90.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
English: from Middle English pak(e) ‘pack, bundle’ + the Anglo-Norman French pejorative suffix -ard, probably a derogatory occupational name for a peddler.
English: pejorative derivative of the Middle English personal name Pack .
Probably also an Americanized form of German Packert, Päckert, from ancient Germanic personal names formed with a word meaning ‘battle’ or ‘to fight’; or a variant of Packer 2 (with excrescent -t).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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