When Grace Brunk was born on 8 January 1879, in Davis, Iowa, United States, her father, Amos Brunk, was 46 and her mother, Mariah Jane Lunsford, was 38. She married George Roswell Knowles about 1903, in Davis, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States for about 20 years and Oakland Judicial Township, Alameda, California, United States in 1940. She died on 11 January 1947, in Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Sunset View Cemetery, El Cerrito, Contra Costa, California, 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.
Kansas became the first state to adopt a constitutional amendment which prohibited all alcoholic beverages on February 19, 1881.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
German: variant of Brunke .
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