When Edmond Brent Backus was born on 11 June 1877, in Harrison, West Virginia, United States, his father, Jasper Backus, was 30 and his mother, Susan Virginia Davis, was 26. He married Sadie Starkey on 28 May 1903, in Harrison, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in New Milton, Doddridge, West Virginia, United States in 1880 and Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia, United States for about 10 years. He died in August 1966, in Bunch, Adair, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Oklahoma, 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 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.
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 (Leicestershire): from Middle English bak(e)hous ‘bakehouse’ (Old English bæchūs), hence a topographic name for someone who lived or worked in a bakery.
Dutch: in Limburg province, a shortened variant of Bakhuis, Dutch form of German Backhaus .
Americanized form of German Backhaus .
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