Brief Life History of Harriet L.
When Harriet L. Parr was born in December 1868, in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States, her father, George Parr, was 40 and her mother, Albina A. Edmunds, was 42. She married Franklin H Diehl on 8 April 1890, in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Linn, Iowa, United States in 1895. She died on 10 November 1954, at the age of 85, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States.
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- Harriet L Diehl, "United States Census, 1920"
- Hattie L. Parr, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"
- Harriet L Parr Diehl, "Find a Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1884 · There is now a Capital Building
The capitol building in Des Moines originally had a budget of $1,500,000 but complications arose because of the need of a redesign. The building was dedicated on January 17, 1884, but it wasn’t completed until 1886. On January 4, 1904, a fire started and swept through the areas that housed the Supreme Court and Iowa House of Representatives. A major restoration was performed and documented, with the addition of electrical lighting, elevators, and a telephone system. By the early 1980s, the sandstone exterior of the Capitol had started deteriorating and prompted the installation of canopies to protect pedestrians from falling rubble. The entire reconstruction process took around 18 years to complete.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Parr in Lancashire, or from residence at an enclosure (Middle English parr, Old English pearr).
German: from Middle Low German parre ‘parish, district, minister's house’; a metonymic occupational name for a parson or for someone who worked in a parsonage or manse. Compare Pfarr .
English: variant of Pear with the common late Middle English and early modern English change of -er- to -ar-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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