When Rufus Franklin Brower was born on 15 October 1877, in Brower Township, Randolph, North Carolina, United States, his father, James Milton Brower, was 20 and his mother, Carrie "Kaetch" Adelaid Chrisco, was 24. He married Lura Loretta Way on 18 December 1898, in Randolph, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in High Point, Randolph, North Carolina, United States in 1959 and Guilford, North Carolina, United States in 1960. He died on 29 April 1960, in High Point, Guilford, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in High Point, Guilford, North Carolina, 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.
In 1897, Senator J.L. Hyatt introduced the woman suffrage bill in North Carolina. The bill did not make it past the committee.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English (London): variant of Brewer .
Altered form of Brauer or Brouwer .
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