When Charles Alvin Hoy was born on 22 March 1877, in Millersburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Nathaniel Nathan Hoy, was 26 and his mother, Sarah Frances Brown, was 19. He married Annie Celesta Lebo on 22 December 1900, in Killinger, Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Tamaqua, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920 and Paxton, Paxton Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America in 1930. He died on 16 February 1950, in Millersburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Saint Davids Reformed Church Cemetery, Killinger, Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
English (Essex): nickname for a sailor, from Middle Dutch hoey ‘cargo ship’.
Irish: variant of Hoey .
Danish (Høy): nickname for a tall person, from høj ‘high’.
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