When Henry Astill was born on 13 September 1880, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, Zachariah Astill, was 47 and his mother, Roseanna Clark, was 34. He married Martha Ellen Atkinson on 10 June 1902, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Sparks Township, Washoe, Nevada, United States in 1940 and Sparks, Washoe, Nevada, United States in 1950. He died on 29 October 1960, in Roy, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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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.
Weber comes from John Henry Weber, an early fur trader. The university opened for students on January 7, 1889. By the late 1920's, the college was in financial difficulty and the Utah Legislature passed a law allowing the purchase of both Weber College and Snow College from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1954 the college moved from downtown Ogden the southeast bench area of the city where it resides currently.
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.
1 English: locative name variant of Astle .
2 Norman, English: relationship name from the Middle English personal name Astill, a contraction of Norman French Ansketill (Old Scandinavian Ásketill, with Continental Germanic Ans- substituted for As-). See Askell .
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