When May Ruth Flight was born on 23 August 1877, in New York, United States, her father, Stephen Ray Flight, was 26 and her mother, Susanna Goodison, was 22. She married Charles Robert Burnham on 21 October 1903, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Oswegatchie, St. Lawrence, New York, United States in 1880 and Macomb, St. Lawrence, New York, United States for about 20 years. She died on 24 October 1926, in St. Lawrence, New York, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Purmort Cemetery, De Peyster, St. Lawrence, New York, 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.
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English flit (Old English flīt) ‘strife, brawl, taunt, quarrel, argument’, perhaps for someone with a quarrelsome disposition.
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