Brief Life History of Frank Peter
When Frank Peter Fox was born on 10 June 1877, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Francis J Fox, was 27 and his mother, Theresa Lechner, was 24. He married Bessie Southcott on 2 March 1912, in Vigo, Indiana, United States. He lived in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900 and Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States in 1930. He died on 19 April 1931, at the age of 53, and was buried in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States.
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- Frank P Fox, "United States Census, 1930"
- Frank P Fox, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Frank Peter Fox, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
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.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from a word denoting the animal (Middle English, Old English fox), widely used to denote a sly or cunning individual. It was also used for someone with red hair. In England this surname absorbed some early examples of surnames derived from the ancient Germanic personal names mentioned at Faulks and Foulks .
Irish: part translation of Gaelic Mac an tSionnaigh ‘son of the fox’ (see Tinney ).
Irish: also adopted for Ó Catharnaigh, see Kearney .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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