When William Merriday Roberts was born on 25 April 1857, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States, his father, Fortin Berry Roberts, was 20 and his mother, Frances Alvira Thomas, was 13. He married Katherine "Kate" Frances Hamner on 2 December 1876, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in San Gorgonio, San Bernardino, California, United States in 1880 and Redlands Judicial Township, San Bernardino, California, United States in 1900. He died on 31 December 1936, in Redlands, San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Redlands, San Bernardino, California, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
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.
English: from the personal name Robert , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also occasionally borne by Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname.
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