When James Orrie Wharton was born on 27 January 1879, in Freedom Township, Bourbon, Kansas, United States, his father, James Orie Wharton, was 45 and his mother, Hester Ann Green, was 43. He married Rose M Deck on 31 October 1917, in Jackson, Missouri, United States. He lived in Wharton, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica in 1955 and United States in 1955. He died on 14 October 1955, in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, 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.
Kansas became the first state to adopt a constitutional amendment which prohibited all alcoholic beverages on February 19, 1881.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English:
habitational name from any of various places called Wharton, in Westmorland, Cheshire, and Lincolnshire, or from Warton in Lancashire, Northumberland, and Warwickshire. The Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Northumberland placenames probably derive from Old English weard ‘watch’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The Cheshire and Warwickshire placenames derive from Old English wæfre ‘swamp, marshy ground’ + tūn. The Westmorland placename may derive from Old English hwearf ‘embankment, shore, wharf’ + tūn.
perhaps occasionally a habitational name from Wiverton in Nottinghamshire, derived from the Old English personal name Wīgfrith + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
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