When Charles Roy Slocum was born on 13 May 1877, in Warsaw, Warsaw, Wyoming, New York, United States, his father, William Cottrel Cranston Slocum, was 39 and his mother, Phoebe A Sherwood, was 34. He married Louise Hanley about 1894, in Richmond, Washington, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Castile, Castile, Wyoming, New York, United States for about 10 years and Castile, Wyoming, New York, United States in 1940. He died on 12 August 1967, in Perry, Perry, Wyoming, New York, United States, at the age of 90.
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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.
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.
English: habitational name from Slocum in Shorwell (Isle of Wight) or Slocombeslade in Brendon (Devon). Both placenames derive from Old English slāh ‘sloe, blackthorn’ + cumb ‘valley’.
History: Anthony Slocombe or Slocum (1590–1674/75) came from Taunton, Somerset, England, to Taunton, MA, in 1637.
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