Brief Life History of James Curtis
When James Curtis Poynter was born on 26 September 1880, in Edmonton, Metcalfe, Kentucky, United States, his father, William Poynter, was 37 and his mother, Susan Elizabeth Barron, was 30. He died on 10 November 1882, at the age of 2.
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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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
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.
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English (southern): variant of Pointer .
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