When John Clinton Peterson was born on 8 September 1880, in Antioch, White, Arkansas, United States, his father, John White Peterson, was 36 and his mother, Arvie Jane Price, was 26. He married Myron Gist Fisher on 26 March 1908, in Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Pulaski, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States for about 1 years and Little Rock, Ketchikan Gateway, Alaska, United States in 1966. He died on 2 March 1966, in North Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Roselawn Memorial Park, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, 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.
Historical Boundaries 1887: White, Arkansas, United States
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
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