When William Henry Boggs was born in June 1872, in DeKalb, Tennessee, United States, his father, Thomas Jefferson Boggs, was 32 and his mother, Effie Gertrude Goodrich, was 25. He married Mary Isabel Cooley on 21 September 1897, in Holland, Ottawa, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Denver, Colorado, United States in 1935 and Election District P, Denver, Colorado, United States in 1940.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
On Aug 1, 1876, The United States Congress passed an act making the Territory of Colorado the 38th state.
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
English: nickname from Middle English bogeys ‘boastful or haughty’. The name (in the forms Boge(y)s, Boga(y)s) is found in the 12th century in Yorkshire and East Anglia, and also around Bordeaux, which had trading links with East Anglia.
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