When Nora L McDowell was born on 4 October 1876, in Hardin, Illinois, United States, her father, Wayne McDowell, was 25 and her mother, Delia Elizabeth Gentry, was 19. She married Thomas Jefferson Douglas Jr on 18 April 1897, in Hardin, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Township of Hardin, Pike, Illinois, United States in 1880. She died on 11 May 1946, in Harrisburg, Saline, Illinois, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Cave-in-Rock, Hardin, Illinois, United States.
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The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
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 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.
Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dubhghaill ‘son of Dubhghall’, a byname meaning ‘dark stranger’, used among the Gaels to distinguish the darker-haired Danes from fair-haired Norwegians. This is the usual Irish spelling of this name, while McDougall is the usual Scottish spelling. However, McDowall is also common in south west Scotland and a prominent Galloway family with this name first appear in the historical record in the late 13th century.
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