When James Calvin Dobson was born on 15 September 1876, in Cass, Illinois, United States, his father, James Frank Dobson, was 24 and his mother, Sarah Elizabeth Davis, was 26. He married Ora Hilderbrand on 27 January 1900, in Van Buren, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Mount Pleasant Township, Van Buren, Missouri, United States in 1880. He died on 24 July 1944, in Van Buren, Missouri, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Peculiar, Van Buren, Missouri, United States.
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The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
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 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.
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Dob(b), a rhyming pet form of Robert (see Dobbe ), + -son.
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