When Melvina Frances Owens was born in May 1877, in Missouri, United States, her father, Granville Green Owens, was 31 and her mother, Mary Alice Sample, was 20. She married Charles E. Howey on 19 March 1898, in Jackson, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Pettis Township, Platte, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Jackson, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States in 1910. She died on 5 April 1925, in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Kaw Township, Jackson, 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.
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Welsh: variant of Owen , with post-medieval excrescent English -s.
Irish: adopted as an Anglicized form by bearers of the Gaelic surname Mac Eoghain (see McEwen ).
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