When John Henry Whitfield was born on 14 July 1878, in Hopkins, Kentucky, United States, his father, Needham Henry Whitfield, was 33 and his mother, Susan F Lovan, was 24. He married Lena "Lennie" Page on 15 January 1899, in Hopkins, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 1 Curtail, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States for about 20 years and Mortons Gap, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States in 1944. He died on 17 January 1944, in White Plains, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Old Salem Cemetery, Mortons Gap, Henderson, Kentucky, 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.
Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892
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: habitational name from any of various places called Whitfield, for example in Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Kent, Northamptonshire, and Northumberland, or Whitefield in Lancashire and the Isle of Wight, named with Old English hwīt ‘white’ + feld ‘open country’, probably because of their chalky soil.
History: Henry Whitfield (1597–c. 1657), preacher and scholar, came from Mortlake, Surrey, England (now part of Greater London) to New Haven, CT, in 1639 and was one of the first settlers in Guilford, CT. He had ten children, some of whom he left in CT when he returned to England in 1650, where he died.
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