When John Duke Yonge was born on 13 December 1877, in Lakeport, Lake, California, United States, his father, James Frederick Moore Yonge, was 35 and his mother, Helena Frances Brittain, was 20. He married Heleualani Eva Cathcart on 20 September 1911, in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He immigrated to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in 1914 and lived in 'Ewa, Oahu, Hawaii, United States in 1930 and Honolulu, Oahu, Kingdom of Hawaii in 1940. He died on 28 May 1950, in Waipahu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Nuuanu Memorial Park, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, 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.
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.
Americanized form of Dutch De Jonge , a variant of De Jong .
English: variant of Young .
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