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Death of George Shifler, Born Jan 24 1825, Murdered May 6 1844 in Kensington framed flag art General Ulysses SDeath of George Shifler, Born Jan 24 1825, Murdered May 6 1844 in Kensington a martyr's lithograph pressed from the Philadelphia nativist riots, where a nineteen year old's death in Kensington became kindling for the anti Catholic furies smoldering through Jacksonian America's immigrant wards. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical