Brief Life History of Henry
When Henry Slavens was born in 1881, in Laclede, Missouri, United States, his father, John Freeman Slavens, was 24 and his mother, Minerva Jane Clark, was 23. He married Cora Mae Bethel on 14 October 1906, in McDonald, Missouri, United States. He died in 1900, in Arkansas, United States, at the age of 19.
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
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.
1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded
The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.
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Irish: variant of Slavin , with the superfluous Englishpatronymic ending -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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