When John Joshua Donegan was born on 21 January 1878, in Cherry Creek, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States, his father, Stephen Donegan, was 29 and his mother, Isabelle Sarah Barker, was 18. He married Eva Lucretia Miller on 12 April 1900, in Glenwood Springs, Garfield, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Emma, Pitkin, Colorado, United States in 1910 and Election Precinct 16, El Paso, Colorado, United States in 1920. He died on 17 December 1936, in Glenwood Springs, Garfield, Colorado, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Rosebud Cemetery, Glenwood Springs, Garfield, Colorado, 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 - 1881: Gunnison, Colorado, United States; 1881: Pitkin, Colorado, United States
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.
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Siobhan.
Irish (Cork and Meath): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Donnagáin ‘descendant of Donnagán’, a personal name from a double diminutive of donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’.
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