When Joseph Page Hagaman was born on 23 October 1920, in Tyrone, Texas, Oklahoma, United States, his father, Fred Lafayette Hagaman, was 33 and his mother, Abbie Lula Elledge, was 31. He married Mildred Lucille Moore on 3 June 1941, in Enid, Garfield, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Election Precinct 69, El Paso, Colorado, United States in 1930 and Pleasant View Township, Texas, Oklahoma, United States for about 5 years. He died on 18 November 2007, in Liberal, Seward, Kansas, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Satanta, Haskell, Kansas, United States.
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By 1921, Tulsa was a booming city with a population of over one hundred thousand, with ten thousand African Americans in the Greenwood District. Crime rates in Tulsa soared and vigilantism was present. An incident occurred with Dick Rowland, an African American shoe shiner, and Sara Page, a white elevator operator. Reports claim Rowland stepped on Page’s foot and she let out a scream. The newspaper reported Rowland attempted to rape Page. Rowland was arrested and white vigilantes demanded the sheriff to hand over Rowland for lynching. An armed group of African American men went to the courthouse to aid in protecting Rowland from the mob. The group was turned away and a shot was fired between the white and African American groups, which ignited a riot. While buildings in Tulsa were burned, a major effort by whites focused mainly on the Greenwood District which was burned to the ground and many were shot. Over 30 people were killed and many were injured in the riots.
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Oklahoma was home to 22,000 German and Italian prisoners of war. The prisoners were sent to work on farms and ranches to continue the production work as many American men were off at war.
Americanized form of German Hagemann or Dutch Hegeman .
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