When Arthur William Shinn was born on 4 December 1881, in Toulon, Stark, Illinois, United States, his father, Charles Elliott Shinn, was 38 and his mother, Rebecca J. Pollock, was 39. He married Margaret Roberta Ogle on 17 September 1912, in Essex Township, Stark, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 26 November 1941, in Toulon, Stark, Illinois, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Toulon Cemetery, Toulon, Stark, Illinois, United States.
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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.
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
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 (Norfolk and Suffolk): nickname from Middle English shin(ne) ‘fair, handsome’, a variant of Shine 3 and Sheen 2.
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