When James Cunningham Grier was born in 1877, in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States, his father, John Grier, was 38 and his mother, Caroline Karen Sophie Larsen, was 22. He died on 24 February 1890, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 13, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, 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.
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.
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Scottish (Glasgow): from the medieval Scottish personal name Grier, a vernacular form of Gregor (see Gregory ). This form of the surname is also common in Ireland, especially Donegal, Antrim, and Longford.
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