When Margaret Alice Calkin was born on 22 February 1882, in Burnt Prairie Township, White, Illinois, United States, her father, Corp Stephen Calkin, was 43 and her mother, Emma Hargrave, was 39. She lived in Mill Shoals, White, Illinois, United States in 1900. She died on 24 December 1951, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 69.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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.
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.
Irish: variant of Culkin .
English: variant of Colkin, from a pet form of the personal names Cole or Coll .
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