Brief Life History of James Michael
When James Michael Lonergan was born on 27 March 1878, in Dubuque, Iowa, United States, his father, Martin William Lonergan Sr., was 35 and his mother, Mary Ann Savage, was 34. He married Mary R. Beyer on 9 May 1911, in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Dubuque Township, Dubuque, Iowa, United States in 1915 and Julien, Dubuque, Iowa, United States in 1930. He registered for military service in 1902. He died on 11 February 1936, in Anamosa, Jones, Iowa, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Dubuque, Iowa, United States.
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- James M Lonargan, "Iowa State Census, 1905"
- James M Lonergan, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- James M Lonergan, "United States Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
1884 · There is now a Capital Building
The capitol building in Des Moines originally had a budget of $1,500,000 but complications arose because of the need of a redesign. The building was dedicated on January 17, 1884, but it wasn’t completed until 1886. On January 4, 1904, a fire started and swept through the areas that housed the Supreme Court and Iowa House of Representatives. A major restoration was performed and documented, with the addition of electrical lighting, elevators, and a telephone system. By the early 1980s, the sandstone exterior of the Capitol had started deteriorating and prompted the installation of canopies to protect pedestrians from falling rubble. The entire reconstruction process took around 18 years to complete.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Donal, Kaitlin, Seamus.
Irish (Munster): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Longargáin, from lonn ‘strong’ + garg ‘fierce’ + the diminutive suffix án.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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