When Lee Davis Pomeroy was born on 18 January 1877, in Front Royal, Warren, Virginia, United States, his father, Silas H. Pomeroy, was 32 and his mother, Martha A Lehew, was 23. He married Sarah Ella Moxley on 29 November 1899, in Howard, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in District 3, Howard, Maryland, United States in 1940 and Baltimore, Maryland, United States in 1950. He died in 1957, in Howard, Maryland, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Marriottsville, Anne Arundel, Maryland, 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.
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 (of Norman origin; mainly Devon and Dorset): habitational name from any of various places in northeastern France named with Old French pommeroie, pommeraie ‘apple orchard’ (collective of pomme ‘apple’). The name was established in Ireland in 1573.
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