When Owen Levern Barrus was born on 21 March 1878, in Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States, his father, Owen Henry Barrus, was 24 and his mother, Olive Deseret McBride, was 19. He married Frances Maud Cook on 19 May 1903, in Owinza, Lincoln, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1930 and Depot Election Precinct, Lemhi, Idaho, United States in 1940. He died on 7 January 1948, in Salmon, Lemhi, Idaho, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Salmon City Cemetery, Salmon, Lemhi, Idaho, 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.
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition, that all forms of polygamy were to be banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
English: variant of Barrows .
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