When Thomas William Hobron was born on 19 May 1866, in Maui, Kingdom of Hawaii, his father, Capt. Thomas Henry Hobron Jr., was 42 and his mother, Frances Elizabeth Gray, was 41. He married Anna Maria Kinney on 29 July 1890, in Hawaii, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He died on 19 March 1922, in Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States.
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This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
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 (northern): habitational name from Hebron (Northumberland), possibly from Old English hēah ‘high’ + byrgen ‘burial place, tumulus’. See also Hepburn .
Czech: from the Biblical placename (II Samuel 2: 1-3), said to mean ‘alliance’ in Hebrew.
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