Brief Life History of Dwight Crofutt
When Dwight Crofutt Broga was born on 30 October 1880, in New York, United States, his father, Kinsman Dwight Broga, was 50 and his mother, Ellen A Crofoot, was 43. He married Emma E. Lee on 27 September 1905, in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Oneida, New York, United States in 1920 and Rome, Jay, Essex, New York, United States in 1921. He registered for military service in 1926. He died on 22 July 1933, in Rome, Oneida, New York, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Rome Cemetery, Rome, Oneida, New York, United States.
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- Dwight C Broga, "United States Census, 1920"
- Dwight Crofutt Broga, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- Dwight C Broga, "New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956"
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World Events (8)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
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.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Polish Wieslaw, Danuta, Jozef, Tadeusz, Wladyslawa, Zbigniew.
Polish, Sorbian, and Jewish (from Poland): nickname for a bearded man, from Polish and Sorbian broda ‘beard’. Compare Bart 1.
German: habitational name from a place called Broda or Brodau.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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