Brief Life History of James Joseph
When James Joseph Cameron was born on 23 December 1878, in Muscatine, Muscatine, Iowa, United States, his father, James Joseph Cameron, was 23 and his mother, Hattie Stachel, was 21. He married Laura M McBride on 2 April 1907, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States in 1920. He died on 2 July 1950, in Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States.
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- James J Cameron, "United States Census, 1930"
- James J. Cameron, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- James Joseph Cameron, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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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.
1884 · There is now a Capital Building
The capitol building in Des Moines originally had a budget of $1,500,000 but complications arose because of the need of a redesign. The building was dedicated on January 17, 1884, but it wasn’t completed until 1886. On January 4, 1904, a fire started and swept through the areas that housed the Supreme Court and Iowa House of Representatives. A major restoration was performed and documented, with the addition of electrical lighting, elevators, and a telephone system. By the early 1980s, the sandstone exterior of the Capitol had started deteriorating and prompted the installation of canopies to protect pedestrians from falling rubble. The entire reconstruction process took around 18 years to complete.
1898 · War with the Spanish
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish:
in the Highlands, it is usually a nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked, bent’ + sròn ‘nose’.
in the Lowlands it is also a habitational name from any of various places called Cameron, especially in Fife.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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