When Onkelina Bernadine Bruns was born on 1 March 1861, her father, Ulfertus Ybelings Bruns, was 24 and her mother, Catharina Margaretha Freesemann, was 20. She married Alva H Harris in 1886, in Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Westport Township, Dickinson, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Everett, Snohomish, Washington, United States in 1920. She died on 3 April 1932, in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The Burtis Opera House opened in Davenport and could easily hold an audience of 1,600. It was a widely used facility and Mark Twain filled the house when he spoke on tour in 1869. It was also used to house Susan B. Anthony when she lectured on the woman's right to vote. The Quad City Symphony Orchestra played its first concert as the new Tri-City Symphony in the Opera House. An arsonist set fire to the building on the evening of April 26, 1921, and the building was severely destroyed. The building was rebuilt but was no longer used as an opera house.
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.
North German and Dutch: patronymic from Brun 2.
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