When John Virgil Arrington was born on 1 January 1881, in Louisville, Winston, Mississippi, United States, his father, Samuel Isiah Arrington, was 21 and his mother, Alma Henda Haggard, was 18. He married Emma Wray on 26 November 1900. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and Winston, Winston, Mississippi, United States in 1950. He died on 14 May 1960, in Louisville, Winston, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Fulton Cemetery, Winston, Mississippi, 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.
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.
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
English:
variant of Harrington with loss of initial H-.
possibly a habitational name from Arrington, a place in Cambridgeshire, named from an Old English byname, Earn(a), meaning ‘eagle’ + -inga- ‘people or followers of’ + tūn ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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