When William Ferdiando Cragun was born on 2 June 1877, in Kokomo, Center Township, Howard, Indiana, United States, his father, Joshua W. Cragun, was 36 and his mother, Hannah Williams, was 27. He married Pearl Catherine McClelland on 8 April 1900, in Grant, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He died on 3 March 1949, in Jonesboro, Mill Township, Grant, Indiana, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Mill Township, Grant, Indiana, 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.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Altered form of Scottish Craigen . Compare Cragin .
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