When David H. Ripley was born in June 1861, in Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa, United States, his father, Lewis Ripley, was 36 and his mother, Elizabeth Jane Jackson, was 19. He married Georgia Maria Noxon on 24 January 1886, in Adams, Gage, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Ouray, Colorado, United States in 1900. He died on 5 November 1930, in Nebraska, United States, at the age of 69.
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Nebraska is the 37th state.
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.
English: habitational name from Ripley (Derbyshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Yorkshire). The Hampshire and Surrey placenames derive from Old English ripel, rippel ‘strip of land’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The Yorkshire placename probably derives from the Anglian tribe name Hrype + Old English lēah. The Derbyshire placename may derive from Old English ripel, rippel or the Anglian tribe name Hrype + Old English lēah.
History: William Ripley (died 1656) came from Wymondham, Norfolk, England, to Hingham, MA, in 1638.
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