When Jasper Newton Summers was born on 10 September 1855, in Indiana, United States, his father, Golvin Summers II, was 25 and his mother, Sarah Jane Trusler, was 23. He married Susannah Fulton on 17 November 1882, in Huntington, Huntington Township, Huntington, Indiana, United States. He lived in Union Township, Huntington, Indiana, United States in 1870 and Rock Creek Township, Huntington, Indiana, United States for about 30 years. He died on 5 March 1937, at the age of 81, and was buried in Lancaster Cemetery, Lancaster, Lancaster Township, Huntington, Indiana, 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.
English: variant of Summer , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: occupational or topographic name for someone who lived or worked at the house of someone named Somer (see Summer ).
Irish (Sligo): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Somacháin ‘descendant of Somachán’, a personal name meaning ‘soft, gentle, innocent’, due to confusion with samhradh ‘summer’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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