Arthur McGinnis Sr.
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Parents
John McGinnis Sr.
John McGinnis Sr.
1811 - 1861
Margaret McCarron
Margaret McCarron
1823 - 1903
Spouse
Mary Margaret Buckley
Mary Margaret Buckley
1863 - 1917
Children
Siblings
James McGinnis Sr.
James McGinnis Sr.
1847 - 1914
John M McGinnis Jr.
John M McGinnis Jr.
1849 - 1922
Sarah M McGinnis
Sarah M McGinnis
1855 - 1936
Hugh Patrick McGinnis
Hugh Patrick McGinnis
1858 - 1933

 In 1900 he was a stoker at a gas house, in 1910 a city laborer, and in 1920 a laborer with the street department.

1878


Oct 30
Age: 25y
1878 • In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box is found later with a taunting poem inside.

1881


Age: 27y
1881 Francis Howell High School (Howell Institute) in St. Charles, Missouri, and Stephen F. Austin High School in Austin, Texas open on the same day, putting them in a tie for the title of the oldest public high school west of the Mississippi River.

1885


Mar
Age: 32y
1885 • February concludes without having a full moon.

1892


Aug
Age: 39y
1892 • Last Broad Gauge "Down" train from Paddington on Great Western Railway.

1895


Feb
Age: 42y
1895 Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnest is first shown at St. James' Theatre in London.

1900


Jun 8
Age: 47y
1900 • The British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land on Crete on which the ruins of the palace of Knossos stand. He begins to unearth some of the palace three days later.

1930


Age: 76y

1932


Sep 1
Age: 79y
1932 • Clara, Lu & Em, generally regarded as the first daytime network soap opera, debuts in its morning time slot over the Blue Network of NBC Radio, having originally been a late evening program.

1932


Sep 3

burial


Seattle, King, Washington, USA ⇓
Buried at Calvary Cemetery.
1932 • German art dealer Otto Wacker is sentenced to 19 months in prison for selling fraudulent paintings he attributed to Vincent van Gogh.

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