When William Henry Lawson was born in September 1879, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Perry Lawson, was 27 and his mother, Sylvia Trent, was 35. He married Harriet Trent about 1899, in Hancock, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Civil District 10, Hancock, Tennessee, United States for about 40 years and Hancock, Tennessee, United States in 1924. He died on 2 September 1924, in Sneedville, Hancock, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Hancock, Tennessee, 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.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Scottish and northern English: patronymic ‘son of Lawrence’; see Law 1. It is also found in Ireland since the 17th century.
Americanized form of Swedish Larsson and Danish, Norwegian or North German Larsen .
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