When Joseph Daniel Fisher was born on 9 February 1883, in Allen Township, Warren, Iowa, United States, his father, Paul Fisher Jr., was 49 and his mother, Sarah Elizabeth Edwards, was 37. He married Laura Ellen Collins on 20 January 1904, in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States. He lived in Polk, Iowa, United States in 1905 and Richland Township, Warren, Iowa, United States in 1940. He died on 13 April 1953, in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States.
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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.
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A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
English: occupational name for a fisherman, from Middle English fis(sc)her(e) ‘fisherman’ (Old English fiscere). In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from many other languages, including German Fischer and its Slavic(ized) variant Fišer (see Fiser ), Dutch Visser , Hungarian Halász (see Halasz ), Italian Pescatore , Slovenian Ribič (see Ribic ), and Croatian Ribić or Ribar .
English: in a few cases, possibly a topographic name for someone who lived near a fish weir on a river, from Middle English fis(sc)hwere, fisshyar ‘fish weir’ (Old English fiscwer, fiscgear), or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Fisher in North Mundham, Sussex.
Irish: translation into English of Gaelic Ó Bradáin ‘descendant of Bradán’, a personal name meaning ‘salmon’. See Braden .
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