When Harry Denny was born on 10 December 1878, in Jefferson, Kansas, United States, his father, James Andrew Denny, was 27 and his mother, Susan Rebecca Denny, was 25. He married Bertha Louise Gardner on 23 May 1904, in Jackson, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in Longton, Elk, Kansas, United States in 1910 and Delaware Township, Jefferson, Kansas, United States in 1920. He died in 1947, at the age of 69.
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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.
Kansas became the first state to adopt a constitutional amendment which prohibited all alcoholic beverages on February 19, 1881.
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.
English and Scottish: from Middle English Den(n)y, a pet form of the personal name Denis (see Dennis ). Compare Tenney .
English: habitational name from Danny in Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, recorded as Danye in 1343. Alternatively, the name may arise from Denny in Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, but no medieval evidence with a habitative preposition has been found in the case of the latter.
Scottish: habitational name from Denny in Stirlingshire.
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