When Green Berry Melton was born on 13 December 1879, in Newton, Missouri, United States, his father, Rueben Melton, was 37 and his mother, Elizabeth Velvina "Eliza" Hanks, was 31. He lived in Dayton Township, Newton, Missouri, United States in 1880. He died on 26 September 1889, in Newton, Missouri, United States, at the age of 9, and was buried in Hornet, Newton, Missouri, 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.
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.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English (northern): habitational name from any of various places, for example in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, and Yorkshire, all of which have the same origin as Middleton , with Old English middel replaced by its Old Norse equivalent methal after the Scandinavian settlement of northern and eastern England.
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