When Roy Walter Shaw was born on 25 December 1878, in Beardstown, Cass, Illinois, United States, his father, John Randolph Shaw, was 32 and his mother, Sarah Elizabeth Orwig Shaw, was 30. He married Agnes May Meikle on 25 December 1918, in Beardstown, Cass, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Cass, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Beardstown Township, Cass, Illinois, United States in 1910. He died on 4 October 1939, in Beardstown, Cass, Illinois, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Beardstown, Cass, Illinois, 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.
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.
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.
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): from Middle English s(c)hawe, s(c)haghe ‘small wood, grove, thicket’ (Old English sceaga). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a small wood, or habitational, for someone from any of the many places so named. Shaw and Shawe are most frequent in Lancashire and Yorkshire, where Shaw in Oldham (Lancashire) may be a principal source of the surname. The English and Lowland Scottish surname was also established in Ireland in the 17th century.
Scottish: shortened form of various surnames from the Gaelic personal name Sitheach, derived from sithech ‘wolf’.
Irish (Down and Antrim): adopted for Ó Síthigh ‘descendant of Sítheach’, a personal name based on sítheach ‘peaceful’. Compare Sheehy .
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