When Harry Lee Shipman was born on 9 November 1877, in Elmdale, Chase, Kansas, United States, his father, Joshua Seth Shipman, was 45 and his mother, Rachel Adelaide Seamans, was 32. He married Henrietta Mary Fenwick before 1904, in Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Chanute, Neosho, Kansas, United States in 1910. He died on 22 August 1966, in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Topeka, Shawnee, 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.
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
English: occupational name for a boatman or mariner, or perhaps for a boatbuilder, from Middle English schipman ‘ship man’.
English: occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle English schep, ship ‘sheep’ + -man.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Dutch Schepman or of its already extinct variant Schipman, cognates of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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