When John Waldorf was born on 17 May 1878, in Stacyville, Mitchell, Iowa, United States, his father, Johannes Mathias Waldorf, was 31 and his mother, Mary Anya Simons, was 23. He married Katherine KATIE Krebsbach on 19 August 1901, in Stacyville, Mitchell, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Mitchell, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Black Hawk Township, Black Hawk, Iowa, United States in 1925. He died on 14 June 1963, in Cedar Falls, Black Hawk, Iowa, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Cedar Falls, Black Hawk, Iowa, United States.
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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.
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.
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
German: habitational name from any of at least three places so called, named with Old High German wald ‘forest’ + dorf ‘village, settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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