When James Edwin Ferguson was born on 27 January 1880, in Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States, his father, Nicholas Kile Ferguson, was 50 and his mother, Emma C. Brann, was 26. He had at least 2 daughters with Lillie May Truitt. He lived in Tarrant, Texas, United States in 1920. He died on 19 February 1948, in Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States, at the age of 68.
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Grenville M. Dodge oversaw the construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway. Work began at Hodge Junction, and eventually extended to the New Mexico border by 1888. Service began on April 1, 1888, with trains travelling between Fort Worth and Denver.
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 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.
Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fergus ‘son of Fearghus’ (see Fergus ) by substituting -son for mac-.
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