Brief Life History of Elmus Bruce
When Elmus Bruce Grogan was born on 31 May 1880, in Calloway, Kentucky, United States, his father, Thomas Richard Grogan, was 34 and his mother, Frances Adeline Stubblefield, was 32. He married Lura C. Hurt on 19 March 1913, in Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Concord, McCracken, Kentucky, United States in 1920 and Magisterial District 7 Hazel, Calloway, Kentucky, United States in 1940. He died on 18 January 1955, in Murray, Calloway, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Hicks Cemetery, Murray, Calloway, Kentucky, United States.
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- Bruce E Grogan, "United States Census, 1930"
- E.B. Grogan, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Elmer Bruce Grogan, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
1892 · The Radio is invented
Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
Irish (Mayo and Offaly): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Grúgáin ‘descendant of Grúgán’, a personal name from a diminutive of grúg ‘anger, fierceness’. The patronymic form Mac Gruagáin (Anglicized McGrogan) is much rarer.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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