When Sattie "Sadie" Catharine Leer was born on 21 January 1877, in York Springs, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Samuel Leer, was 36 and her mother, Sarah Ann Strayer, was 31. She married Edward C. Keefer on 5 January 1897, in Adams, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Huntington Monthly Meeting, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States for about 50 years. She died on 2 February 1956, in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Sunnyside Cemetery, Latimore Township, Adams, 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.
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.
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Dutch: from a shortened form of the personal name Hilaire (from Latin Hilarius; see Hillary ).
Danish: habitational name from a place so called in northern Germany, near Oldenburg.
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