When Samuel Rogers Brook was born on 31 May 1877, in Indiana, United States, his father, William J. Brooks, was 28 and his mother, Louisa Elvessa Rogers, was 24. He had at least 1 son and 2 daughters with Alice May Strimple. He lived in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States for about 10 years and San Diego Township, San Diego, California, United States in 1940. He died on 1 April 1964, in San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in San Diego, San Diego, California, 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.
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a brook, stream, water-meadows or low, marshy ground, from Middle English brook, Old English brōc ‘brook, stream’; or a habitational name from any of various places called with this word, such as Brook (Kent, Rutland) or Brooke (Norfolk).
North German: topographic name for someone who lived by a water meadow or marsh, from Low German brook (cognate with German Bruch ‘swamp’ and Old English brōc; see 1 above).
Americanized form of Dutch Broek: topographic name from broek, a cognate of 2 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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