When William Edgar McKee was born on 18 June 1876, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, his father, James Harsha McKee, was 39 and his mother, Margaret Elizabeth Green, was 33. He married Agnes Marion Gray on 7 July 1897, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 15 July 1948, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, 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.
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
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.
Irish (northern): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Aodha or Mac Aoidh ‘son of Aodh’, an old personal name meaning ‘fire’. Thus, this name has the same origin as McKay , McGee , McCoy , and McHugh .
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