When Joseph Rudolph Schams was born on 18 February 1876, in La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Josef Schams, was 28 and his mother, Whilhelmina Fischer, was 26. He married Amelia Ruchmann on 17 September 1902, in Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Juneau, Wisconsin, United States in 1920 and Clearfield, Juneau, Wisconsin, United States for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 9 January 1944, in La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in La Crosse, Wisconsin, 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 fire erupted on January 10, 1883, at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee. The fire began at 4:00 am in an elevator shaft and raced up through the building. The fire spread so quickly that many could not escape. General and Mrs. Tom Thumb, stars of P.T. Barnum's circus, were guests in the hotel at the time of the fire. A firefighter reached them by ladder and they were able to escape safely. The exact number of deaths remains unknown as the hotel register was destroyed in the fire, however, the death toll is estimated between 75-90.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
German: nickname for a simpleton, from a Rhenish Franconian and Lower Rhine dialect word, Schaus.
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