When William George Brough was born on 23 December 1879, in Porterville, Morgan, Utah, United States, his father, William George Brough, was 24 and his mother, Emily Jane Cotterell, was 19. He married Bessie Antoinette Porter on 16 November 1904, in Morgan, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and Morgan, Morgan, Utah, United States in 1950. He died on 24 September 1950, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Morgan, Morgan, 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.
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
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 and Scottish: habitational name from any of various English places called Brough or Burgh. See Burgh .
Scottish: habitational name from Brough in Harray (Orkney).
Americanized form of German Brauch or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname.
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