Brief Life History of Ross Carl
When Ross Carl Myers was born on 7 May 1877, in Shirleysburg, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Edward A Myers, was 38 and his mother, Penninah Anna Thompson, was 37. He married Marion L. Kinney on 27 April 1909, in Tyrone, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States. He lived in Altoona, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920. He died on 9 November 1944, in Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Tyrone, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Ross C Meyers, "United States Census, 1920"
- Ross C. Myers, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
- Ross Carl Myers, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
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
Irish (Tipperary, Limerick and Waterford): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Meidhir ‘descendant of Meidhir’, with post-medieval excrescent -s. Meidhir is a personal name based on meidhir ‘mirth’.
English (northern): variant of Myer , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English (northern): habitational name from one or more of the minor placenames derived from Middle English mire ‘marsh’ (Old Norse mýrr) in the plural form, such as Melmerby Mire in Melmerby, or Mires in Docker (both Cumbria).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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