When Richard Lincoln Chegwidden was born on 21 July 1878, in Gold Hill, Storey, Nevada, United States, his father, Richard Chegwidden, was 39 and his mother, Eliza Hoskin, was 35. He lived in Redding, Shasta, California, United States in 1935 and Grass Valley Judicial Township, Nevada, California, United States in 1940. He died on 7 October 1944, in Grass Valley, Nevada, California, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Grass Valley, Nevada, California, 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.
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
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.
Cornish: from chy ‘house’ + gwydn ‘white’, or from any of several places in Cornwall so named.
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