When Joseph Claude Walkup was born on 28 April 1878, in Buchanan Township, Atchison, Missouri, United States, his father, William Riley Walkup, was 24 and his mother, Mary Frances Stephens, was 24. He married Lottie Emma Horn on 26 December 1900, in Buchanan, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Van Buren Township, Jackson, Missouri, United States in 1910 and Tremont Township, Buchanan, Missouri, United States for about 20 years. He died on 30 December 1954, in Gower, Clinton, Missouri, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Allen Cemetery, Platte Township, Buchanan, 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.
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 (Derbyshire): unexplained.
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