When Clifford Andrew Conn was born on 28 December 1900, in Newton, Jasper, Iowa, United States, his father, John Lindsay Conn, was 29 and his mother, Harriet Snodgrass, was 26. He married Hilda Lucille Gunsaulus on 2 February 1924, in Newton, Jasper, Iowa, United States. He lived in Jasper, Iowa, United States in 1905 and Newton Township, Jasper, Iowa, United States in 1940. He died in April 1961, in Newton, Jasper, Iowa, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Newton Union Cemetery, Newton, Jasper, Iowa, United States.
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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.
The Keokuk Dam was completed in 1913 and began to power the surrounding area. It was the largest single capacity powerhouse in the world at the time. After World War II, the powerhouse was modernized and all the units were converted in 2002. It remains the largest privately owned and operated dam on the Mississippi River.
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Scottish and Irish (Armagh, Derry): back-formation from Mac Coinn ‘son of Conn’, the early Gaelic personal name usually interpreted as ‘reason, wisdom’ or ‘head, chieftain’; its genitive in surnames is Coinn[e], see Quinn .
Irish: shortened form of McConn .
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