When Jesse Albert Powls was born on 13 December 1879, in Kansas, United States, his father, Levi Washington Powless, was 42 and his mother, Sarah Hall, was 32. He married Edith Anna Bradley on 22 March 1911, in Nevada, Story, Iowa, United States. He lived in Polk, Iowa, United States in 1895 and Weston, Umatilla, Oregon, United States for about 20 years. He died on 27 May 1943, in Newport, Lincoln, Oregon, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Eureka Cemetery, Newport, Lincoln, Oregon, 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.
Kansas became the first state to adopt a constitutional amendment which prohibited all alcoholic beverages on February 19, 1881.
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.
English and Welsh: variant of Powells, itself a variant of Powell , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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