Herbert Hoover was born on August 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa, and was the first president born west of the Mississippi River. When Hoover was six years old, his father died. Three years later his mother also died, and Hoover was then raised in Oregon by his aunt and uncle. Hoover lived the next 18 months with his uncle Allen Hoover in West Branch. In November 1885 he went to Newberg, Oregon, to live with his uncle Dr. John Minthorn, a physician and businessman whose own son had died the year before.
After Washington’s father died, He went to live with Lawrence Washington, his half brother. At the age of 16, in 1748, George Washington traveled the lands for a one month trip being a surveyor with George William Fairfax and James Genn (memory.loc.gov). While surveying Virginia’s western territory, Washington didn’t survey that much because it was mostly just left up to the more experience surveyors he was
On May 13, 1859 John H. Gregory presented $8 of gold that he mined near Clear Creek, bringing back up the excitement by the end of May causing everyone to leave everything they were doing, building houses, bar-keepers, etc. to join the rush, again. Well-known journalists from various newspapers hike up to Gregory Gulch, where they saw that panning for gold could average $21 up to $500 a day. They published their findings in the Rocky Mountain News, which ended bringing five hundred new comers daily, who set up camps throughout Central
April 6 of 2013 will mark the 120th anniversary of the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple. Let’s revisit the building of the Temple. Hundreds of LDS men worked on the exterior walls of the Temple. As many as 150 men worked on the temple at any given time. During the forty years from the beginning to the end of the project, they also completed the construction of the great domed Tabernacle, the Assembly Hall, the Temple Annex, and a 15-foot-high wall that, a century and a half later, still sequesters Temple Square from the city that surrounds it.
Living in a three-sided shelter on Pigeon Creek, a Abraham received a few more months of schooling between helping his father build a house and a farm. But, in the fall of 1818, Abraham's mother, along with his great aunt and uncle, would pass away from 'milk sick', likely drinking milk from cows that had grazed on white snakeroot (Stevenson,
Ellis, farmer, sec. 31 ; P.O. Annaton ; was born in 1833 in Pulaski Co. Va. ; was son of Washington and Agnes Ellis ; lived with parents till 21 years of age. Came to Wisconsin at the age of 15 with his parents, in 1848, locating at Ellenboro, Grant Co., Wis.. ; labored on a farm for wages three years, and in 1859 he married Elizabeth Cox, a daughter of John and Agnes Cox who were farmers by occupation. His wife was one of a family of five children ; William Ellis being one of a family of ten.
The most elaborate escape was committed on June 11, 1962. This was planned and orchestrated by Frank Lee Morris, John and Clarence Anglin, and Allen Clayton West. To plan this escape, it took close to seven months. The plan went on without West because he was unable to get his air vent off. It is supposed that the last three men drowned on their way to shore on San Francisco (Wellman 61).
For the last 17 years I have spent summers with my dad in Utah and the rest of the year with my mom in Florida. My part-time Mormonism usually began the first weekend after the last day of school. I remember my brother and I being so excited to fly to Utah because the summer would kick-off with a big family reunion camping trip. During those summers, I was Mormon and everything we did revolved around the
He did not typically drive when he was intoxicated, but I am glad that no one was hurt. I am glad that he was charged with a DUI offense. He just recently had his license suspended in May of 2006. His penalty for driving drunk was the minimum for Arizona state laws. He had to serve a few days in “tent city” (Hill, Jim, 1999), he had his driver’s license suspended for one year, and he has had to take a few hours of alcohol related courses.
I will be writing a report on migration from Mexico to the USA which has become a big factor in the past few centuries. The four USA states that border Mexico are California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. The Mexican states which border USA are Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas. Every year 1+ million Mexicans migrate to the USA every year for social, economic, political and environmental reasons. 10,000 people cross the Mexican border every week, each have their own reasons but the factors that influence them are the same.