When William Farrel Hollingsworth was born on 12 June 1860, in Quaker, Vermillion Township, Vermillion, Indiana, United States, his father, David Hollingsworth, was 29 and his mother, Martha Ellen McCool, was 24. He married Clara Belle Sykes on 3 November 1881. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in Elwood Township, Vermilion, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Georgetown, Vermilion, Illinois, United States in 1910. He died on 28 August 1933, in Danville, Vermilion, Illinois, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Forest Park Cemetery, Georgetown, Vermilion, Illinois, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1866: Vermillion, Indiana, United States
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: habitational name from Hollingworth (Cheshire), Hollingworth in Butterworth (Lancashire), or possibly Hollinworth Head in Charlesworth (Derbyshire), from Old English holegn ‘holly’ + worth ‘enclosure’. The surname, which was taken to Ireland in the 17th century, has developed a variant with an unexplained medial -s- not noted in any of the placename forms.
Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish name.
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