Lester Jacob Fritz was born on 17 August 1900, in Macon, Macon, Missouri, United States. He married Bonnie Lillie Hiles on 30 April 1923. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 11 January 1985, in Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 84.
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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.
Oklahoma is the 46th state.
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
German: from a pet form of the personal name Friedrich . This form of the surname is also found in Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, and France (Alsace and Lorraine), and also in central European countries such as Slovenia, Croatia, Czechia, and Slovakia, where it is more often spelled in the Slavicized form Fric (see below).
Americanized or Germanized form of Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian Fric: from the personal name Fric, a pet form, of German origin (see above), of Old Czech and Slovak Fridrich, Slovenian Friderik, Croatian Fridrik, equivalents of German Friedrich .
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