When Robert Lee Baldridge Sr. was born on 6 February 1880, in Texas, United States, his father, Robert James Baldridge, was 36 and his mother, Martha Esther Bourland, was 27. He married Nora Olivia Payne on 7 April 1905, in Junction, Kimble, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Bosque, Texas, United States in 1920 and Justice Precinct 8, Bosque, Texas, United States in 1940. He died on 25 January 1946, in Clifton, Bosque, Texas, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Clifton Cemetery, Clifton, Bosque, Texas, United States.
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Grenville M. Dodge oversaw the construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway. Work began at Hodge Junction, and eventually extended to the New Mexico border by 1888. Service began on April 1, 1888, with trains travelling between Fort Worth and Denver.
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.
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.
English (North Yorkshire and Durham): from the Middle English personal name Baldri(c) (see Baldry ).
Possibly also an altered form of German Baldrich, a cognate of 1 above.
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