When Lawrence Leonard Beckstead was born on 1 January 1883, in Riverton, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, George Francis Beckstead, was 22 and his mother, Charlotte Emeline Hamilton, was 22. He married Esther Jacobina Hansen on 15 May 1907, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Toppenish, Yakima, Washington, United States in 1920 and School District 10 Chinook, Blaine, Montana, United States in 1940. He died on 21 October 1948, in Chinook, Blaine, Montana, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Kuper Memorial Cemetery, Chinook, Blaine, Montana, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1884: Yakima, Washington Territory, United States 1889: Yakima, Washington, United States
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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.
Americanized form of North German Beckstedde or Beckstedt: topographic name from Low German Beck ‘stream’ + -stedde ‘place’, or a habitational name from Beckstedt near Wildeshausen, Oldenburg.
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF Charlotte Emeline Hamilton Beckstead, daughter of James Lang and Mary Ann Campbell Hamilton. Born January 7 1860, in Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah. I am just home from the hospital wh …
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