When Clara Emma Heatley was born on 26 July 1877, in Allegheny City, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, James William Heatly, was 28 and her mother, Margaret Woods, was 27. She married Robert Fowler Hunt Sr. on 17 September 1895, in Central Falls, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Providence, Rhode Island, United States in 1900 and Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States for about 40 years. She died in 1957, at the age of 80, and was buried in Central Falls, Providence, Rhode Island, 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.
On January 27, 1895, College Hall catches on fire and is fully consumed within one hour. During the fire, many students and faculty work together to save many of the items in the building. Some of these are library books. They save the books by piling them onto the rugs and dragging them out of the burning building. College Hall is then later rebuilt and renamed Davis Hall after Governor John W. Davis.
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.
English: habitational name from Heatley in Lymm (Cheshire), Heatley in Broomhall (Cheshire), or Heatley near Abbots Bromley (Staffordshire). The placenames derive from Old English hǣth ‘heath, heather’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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