Brief Life History of James Garfield
When James Garfield Douglass was born on 31 July 1881, in Hamilton, Hamilton, Madison, New York, United States, his father, Elijah Douglass, was 46 and his mother, Julia A Mosier, was 36. He married Mary Elizabeth Barnes on 28 July 1909, in British Columbia, Canada. He died on 23 May 1955, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 73.
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- Garfield J Douglass in household of Elijah Douglass, "United States Census, 1900"
- James Garfield Douglass, "Canada, British Columbia Marriage Registrations, 1859-1932; 1937-1938"
- James Garfield Douglass, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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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.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English (Durham and Northumbria): variant of Douglas .
History: William Douglass, a physician recognized for his identification and description of an epidemic of scarlet fever, was born c. 1691 in Gifford, Haddington County, Scotland, and settled in Boston in 1718. The abolitionist, orator, and journalist Frederick Douglass assumed the name after escaping from slavery in 1838 and traveling to Massachusetts. Son of a white father and a slave with some Indian blood, he was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey c. 1817 in Tuckahoe, MD.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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