When Jared Curtis Benson was born on 6 October 1877, in Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States, his father, Jared Irving Benson, was 31 and his mother, Jennie Aiken Guild, was 25. He married Margaret Emlyn Jenkins on 20 March 1899, in Johnson, Iowa, United States. He immigrated to Seattle, King, Washington, United States in 1919 and lived in Havre, Hill, Montana, United States in 1910 and Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1920. He died on 4 January 1948, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 70.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1887: Choteau, Montana Territory, United States 1889: Choteau, Montana, United States 1903: Chouteau, Montana, United States 1912: Hill, Montana, United States
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 medieval personal name Ben(ne), a pet form of Benedict (see Benn ) + -son.
English: habitational name from a place in Oxfordshire named Benson, from Old English Benesingtūn ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with Benesa’, a personal name of obscure origin, perhaps a derivative of Bana meaning ‘slayer’.
Americanized form of any of various Scandinavian patronymics from the personal name Bengt, Bendt, etc., Scandinavian forms of Benedict , e.g. Swedish Bengtsson , Danish Bendtsen, Danish and Norwegian Bentsen . Compare Bensen 2.
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