When Alexander D Henderson was born on 10 November 1880, in Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey, United States, his father, Joseph Henderson Jr, was 26 and his mother, Mary Emma Duryea, was 21. He died on 17 May 1890, in his hometown, at the age of 9, and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States.
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John Philip Holland was an inventor famous for designing the world's first submarines. After previous designs were rejected, Holland eventually received funding from the Fenians for a short time. In 1881, the Fenian Ram was launched into the Passaic River in northern New Jersey, marking the first successful submarine launch in the world.
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.
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English and Scottish: usually from Middle English and Older Scots Hener(i)son ‘Henry's son’, occasionally from Middle English Hendeson ‘son of Hen’, a pet form of Henry , both with an intrusive -d-. Compare Hendrie . In Scotland Henderson was sometimes substituted for McKendrick .
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