Brief Life History of Heber Charles
When Heber Charles Rowley was born on 12 March 1876, in Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States, his father, John Rowley, was 34 and his mother, Mary Ann Gadd, was 27. He married Caroline Marinda Norton on 25 May 1896, in Estación Díaz, Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Hayden, Uintah, Utah, United States in 1920. He died on 9 June 1928, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Heber C Rowley, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: Heber Charles Rowley - Government record: Death record or certificate: birth-name: Heber Charles Rowley
- Mr. Heber C Rowley, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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1880
United States railroad companies receive favorable concessions. Railroad boom.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from one or more of various places called Rowley or Rowly, such as Rowley Regis (Staffordshire), Rowley (Devon, Durham), Rowleygreen Farm (Hertfordshire), Rowly (Surrey), Rowley (East Yorkshire), Rowley, near Bardsey (Yorkshire), Rowley in Lepton (Yorkshire), and Rowley Hill (Essex). The placenames probably all derive from Old English rūh ‘rough’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, though the East Yorkshire place may have been named with hlāw ‘mound, hill’ as the second element.
Irish: from Ó Roghallaigh, a variant of Ó Raghailligh. See Riley and O'Reilly .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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