When Donald Hugh Davidson Munro was born on 15 November 1869, in Thurso, Caithness, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, John George Munro, was 26 and his mother, Ann Swanson, was 25. He married Ann Christina "Annie" Bechtal on 20 January 1898, in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in South Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1900. He died on 24 August 1908, in Preston, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 38.
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Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
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.
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic Rothach ‘man from Ro’. According to tradition which may be substantially correct, the ancestors of the Munros came from Ireland, from the foot of the river Roe in Derry, whence the name Bun-rotha, giving Mun-rotha by eclipsis of b after the preposition in’. See also Monroe , compare Munroe .
Irish (Meath): variant of Mulroy .
History: This (see 1 above) is the name of a Scottish clan with an ancestral seat at Foulis Castle, near Evanton, Ross-shire.
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