Brief Life History of William Morgan
When William Morgan Glass was born on 13 January 1874, in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States, his father, Jasper Dodge Glass, was 24 and his mother, Nancy Jane Lane, was 23. He married Mary Louise Weiss on 13 October 1897, in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Benton, Benton, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Polk Township, Benton, Iowa, United States for about 10 years. He died on 15 June 1944, in Urbana, Benton, Iowa, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Urbana Memorial Cemetery, Urbana, Benton, Iowa, United States.
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- Willie Glass in household of J D Glass, "United States Census, 1880"
- W. M. Glass, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- William M Glass, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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 and German: metonymic occupational name for a glazier or glass blower, from Old English glæs ‘glass’, Middle High German glas. In English, the name may also derive from a nickname from Old French glas, clas ‘clash of arms, noise, tumult (of battle)’.
Irish (Ulster), Welsh, Cornish, and Scottish: from an Anglicized form of the epithet glas ‘slate colored, gray’, or any of various Gaelic surnames derived from it.
German: from an altered form of the personal name Klass, a shortened form of Nikolaus (see Nicholas ). This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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