When Florence Isabella Hockenberry was born on 13 November 1876, in Leon, Decatur, Iowa, United States, her father, William Harvey Hockenberry, was 24 and her mother, Nancy Anna Victoria Cook, was 22. She married Henry Allison Artherton on 24 March 1898. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Silverdale, Cowley, Kansas, United States for about 20 years and Spring Creek Township, Cowley, Kansas, United States in 1940. She died on 15 April 1970, in Arkansas City, Cowley, Kansas, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Arkansas City, Cowley, Kansas, United States.
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The town of Nicodemus was founded by African-American migrants from Kansas in 1877.
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.
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
Americanized form of German Hackenberger or perhaps of Hachenburger (see Hockenbury ).
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