Brief Life History of Horace Bertram
When Horace Bertram Hawley was born on 24 August 1910, in Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, United States, his father, Gilbert Washington Hawley, was 26 and his mother, Lottie Bell Powell, was 28. He lived in Washington Township, Buchanan, Missouri, United States in 1930. He died on 10 December 1978, in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 68.
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Sources (5)
- Bertram H Hawley in household of George W Hawley, "United States Census, 1930"
- Horace Hawley, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Horace B Hawley, "Missouri, Jackson County Voter Registration Records, 1928-1956"
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1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a lost place called Hawley in Sheffield (Yorkshire). The placename derives from Old Norse haugr ‘hill, burial mound’ + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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