When Brigham Cook Holbrook was born on 13 October 1877, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States, his father, Brigham Angell Holbrook, was 21 and his mother, Hannah Cook, was 18. He married Nellie Louisa Pace on 13 December 1900, in Davis, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He lived in Bountiful Election Precinct, Davis, Utah, United States for about 40 years. He died on 11 November 1956, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Bountiful Memorial Park, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, 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.
Death by suicide of van Gogh.
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 any of various places called with Old English hol ‘hole, hollow’ + brōc ‘brook, stream’, such as Holbrook (Derbyshire, Dorset, Suffolk) and Howbrook in Wortley (Yorkshire).
Americanized form of North German Halbrock (or some like-sounding surname), a cognate of 1 above.
History: This name was first taken to America by the brothers Thomas and John Holbrook, who emigrated to MA in the 17th century; their line can be traced back to Dundry, Somerset, England, in the first half of the 16th century. Other English bearers who started early lines of descent in the New World are Joseph Ho(u)lbrook of Warrington, Lancashire, who emigrated to MD as an indentured servant in the later 17th century; Randolph Holbrook, who was in VA in the 1720s but later returned to Nantwich, Cheshire; and Rev. John Holbrook, who emigrated from Handbury, Staffordshire, to NJ c. 1723.
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