When Goldie Plunkett was born in March 1870, in Ohio, United States, her father, Amos Emanuel Garfield Plunkett, was 33 and her mother, Jane Skinner, was 29. She married Joseph Martin Thomas on 30 September 1893, in Polk, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Polk Township, Dade, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Madison Township, Cedar, Missouri, United States in 1910.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
A federal law which reversed most of the penalties on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from a metathesized form of Plouquenet in Ille-et-Villaine, Brittany, so named from Breton plou ‘parish’ (from Latin plebs ‘people’) + Guenec, the personal name (a diminutive of guen ‘white’) of a somewhat obscure saint. As an Irish name, it has been Gaelicized as Pluincéid.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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