When Willis Preston Craig was born on 13 April 1880, in De Soto, Jefferson, Missouri, United States, his father, William Washington Craig, was 42 and his mother, Samantha Dearing, was 32. He married Margaret Isabel Simms on 22 December 1921, in Hillsboro, Jefferson, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Big River Township, Jefferson, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Festus, Jefferson, Missouri, United States in 1900. He died on 5 January 1966, in De Soto, Jefferson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in De Soto, Jefferson, Missouri, 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 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.
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived near a steep or precipitous rock, Older Scots crag, craig. Compare the synonymous English Cragg .
Manx: either a shortened form of Gaelic Mac Concharraige ‘son of Cu Charraige (‘hound of the rock’) or possibly of Mac Thorveig ‘son of Thorveig’, from the Old Norse personal name Thórveig (from the god's name Thórr + veig ‘pith, strength’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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