When Thomas David Prichard was born on 22 October 1879, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Thomas William Pritchard, was 32 and his mother, Sarah Elizabeth Seaton, was 34. He married Anna Mary May Gale on 2 January 1900, in Payson, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years. He died on 21 December 1962, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, 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.
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
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.
Welsh: variant of Pritchard .
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