When Charles Eugene Brockway was born on 20 March 1876, in Utica, Crawford, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Stephen N. Brockway, was 38 and his mother, Cornelia Adelaide Dudley, was 37. He married Rhoda Pearl George on 23 November 1898, in Utica, Crawford, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 16 August 1944, in Utica, Crawford, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Seneca, Crawford, Wisconsin, 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 fire erupted on January 10, 1883, at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee. The fire began at 4:00 am in an elevator shaft and raced up through the building. The fire spread so quickly that many could not escape. General and Mrs. Tom Thumb, stars of P.T. Barnum's circus, were guests in the hotel at the time of the fire. A firefighter reached them by ladder and they were able to escape safely. The exact number of deaths remains unknown as the hotel register was destroyed in the fire, however, the death toll is estimated between 75-90.
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: topographic name from Middle English broke ‘brook, stream’ + weye ‘way, road’, for someone who lived ‘(by the) road near the brook’. The name may refer to a lost or as yet unidentified place.
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