When Mary Jane Hobson was born on 13 April 1864, in Penn Township, Jefferson, Iowa, United States, her father, Dr George Arnott HOBSON, was 34 and her mother, Emaline Hadley, was 31. She died on 19 August 1865, in Keokuk, Iowa, United States, at the age of 1, and was buried in Friends Cemetery, Richland Township, Keokuk, Iowa, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): patronymic from the personal name Hobb(e) + son (see Hobbs ).
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