Brief Life History of Howard Anthony
When Howard Anthony Broughton was born on 6 October 1863, in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States, his father, William Wallace Broughton, was 27 and his mother, Amanda Elizabeth Anthony, was 16. He married Jennie Little Means on 7 March 1898, in Pomona, Los Angeles, California, United States. He lived in San Jose Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1900 and New York City, New York, United States in 1920. He died on 18 October 1951, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 88.
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- Howard A Broughton, Sr, "United States 1950 Census"
- Howard Anthony Broughton, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Howard A Broughton, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1869 · Transcontinental Railroad Reaches San Francisco
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many places in all parts of England called Broughton. The first element is variously Old English brōc ‘brook’, burg ‘fortress’, or beorg ‘hill, mound’; the second is in all cases Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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