When Lora Mildred Brock was born on 31 March 1900, in Moro, Sherman, Oregon, United States, her father, George Washington Brock, was 43 and her mother, Alice Lovell Miller, was 35. She married Dale Gilbert Loftin on 13 September 1920. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in West Moreland Election Precinct, Lane, Oregon, United States in 1940 and Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States in 1950. She died on 1 November 1964, in Pendleton, Umatilla, Oregon, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in West Salem, Polk, Oregon, United States.
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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.
Pike’s Market is one of the oldest still working farmer’s markets in the US. It is located in Seattle’s central business district, just north of Belltown , and southwest of central waterfront and Elliott Bay. One of the attractions there is the gum wall.
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
English, Scottish, and North German: variant of Brook .
English and Scandinavian: nickname for a person supposedly resembling a badger, from Middle English brok(ke) ‘badger’ (Old English brocc) and Danish brok (a word of Celtic origin; compare Welsh broch, Cornish brogh, Irish broc). In the Middle Ages badgers were regarded as unpleasant creatures.
Dutch and Flemish: from a personal name, a short form of Brockert .
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