When Horace Edwin Cogeshall was born on 12 August 1885, in Randolph, Fremont, Iowa, United States, his father, Horace Greeley Coggeshall, was 24 and his mother, Julianna Walker, was 23. He married Alma Mathilde Jessen on 1 September 1910, in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States for about 10 years and Shorewood, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States in 1930. He died on 19 March 1943, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Randolph Cemetery, Randolph, Fremont, Iowa, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Protesting to lower the mandated work day to eight hours, a labor rally, near Haymarket Square in Chicago, turned into a riot after an individual threw a bomb at police. As a result, eight people were killed and many more injured. The Haymarket Riot is viewed as a labor movement setback in America.
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.
English (Middlesex): habitational name from Coggeshall in Essex, named from an Old English personal name Cogg + halh ‘nook’.
History: This name was taken to America in 1632 by John Coggeshall, who became first governor of RI, and in 1635 by John Cogswell. In 1887 a descendant, Daniel Cogswell, founded Cogswell College, San Francisco.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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