When Melcena Amsil Brink was born on 28 September 1877, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, George Washington Brink, was 47 and her mother, Ellen M. Shaffer, was 36. She married Andrew Crepp on 25 December 1889, in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Grant Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. She died on 11 August 1908, in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 30, and was buried in Utahville Cemetery, Coalport, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, 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.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
North German; Danish and Swedish (of German origin): topographic name for someone who lived by a pasture or green, from Middle Low German brinc ‘hill, edge, slope, grazing land’, especially a raised meadow in low-lying marshland. Swedish name is ornamental.
Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived by the brink, which is in the central and east Netherlands the name of the common area in the centre of the village, the village square. Compare Vandenbrink .
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