When Hardin Asher Parke was born in September 1858, in Hardin, Iowa, United States, his father, Asher W. Parke, was 40 and his mother, Aseanath Rodgers, was 31. He married Ada Rebecca Evans from 1884 to 1886. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Vale, Malheur, Oregon, United States in 1910 and Berkeley, New South Wales, Australia in 1929. He died on 10 December 1929, in Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Kensington, Contra Costa, California, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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: variant of Park . This form of the surname is common in Ireland.
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