Brief Life History of Monica
When Monica Roark was born in April 1880, in Ashe, North Carolina, United States, her father, Jonathan Roark, was 36 and her mother, Elizabeth Catherine Vanover, was 36.
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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.
1897 · First Bill for Women Suffrage
In 1897, Senator J.L. Hyatt introduced the woman suffrage bill in North Carolina. The bill did not make it past the committee.
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Irish: shortened and altered form of O'Rourke .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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