When Breck Hounshell was born on 20 March 1897, in Shoulderblade, Breathitt, Kentucky, United States, his father, Granville H. Hounshell, was 39 and his mother, Martha Ann Spencer, was 26. He married Susan Ann "Annie" Gross on 14 October 1918, in Breathitt, Kentucky, United States. He lived in Magisterial District 3, Breathitt, Kentucky, United States in 1900. He died on 12 October 1930, in Breathitt, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 33, and was buried in Breathitt, Kentucky, United States.
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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.
On January 30, 1900 Governor William Goebel of Kentucky was assassinated. He took a bullet to the chest, outside the Old State Capitol. He died on February 3, 1900.
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
English: variant of Hounsell .
Americanized form of German Hauenschild, a variant of Hauschild .
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