When Henry Elliott Brookfield was born on 9 January 1879, in Lockeford, San Joaquin, California, United States, his father, Job Jacob Brookfield II, was 35 and his mother, Henrietta Hartwell, was 27. He married Lottie Rosella Reppert on 14 February 1902, in Siskiyou, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and Grants Pass, Josephine, Oregon, United States in 1950. He died on 12 April 1957, in Josephine, Oregon, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Klamath Falls, Klamath, Oregon, United States.
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The Great Gale of 1880 was a severe snow and wind storm that devastated parts of Oregon and Washington on January 9, 1880. The extratropical cyclone caused tides to rise seven feet, gale force winds, and snow accumulations of up to 18 inches.
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.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English (Lancashire): from Middle English brok (Old English brōc) ‘stream, brook’ + feld ‘open country’, a habitational name from any of various minor places so named, in particular Brookfield House in Nether Peover, Cheshire, recorded as le Brocfeld in the late 13th century. Alternatively, the surname may be topographic, for someone who lived by a piece of open land near a brook.
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