Brief Life History of Ida Viola
When Ida Viola Bailey was born on 27 February 1855, in Waterloo, Black Hawk, Iowa, United States, her father, Asa Morrison Bailey, was 28 and her mother, Mary Annis, was 31. She married Rudolphus Rouse Bourland on 15 April 1879, in Plainwell, Allegan, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in East Waterloo Township, Black Hawk, Iowa, United States in 1860 and Chittenden, Rutland, Vermont, United States in 1870. She died on 20 January 1943, in Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Springdale Cemetery, Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, United States.
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- Ida V Bailey, "United States Census, 1870"
- Ida V. Bourland, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Ida Viola Barley, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
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1856 · The Largest Map Company in the World
William Rand opened a small printing shop in Chicago. Doing most of the work himself for the first two years he decided to hire some help. Rand Hired Andrew McNally, an Irish Immigrant, to work in his shop. After doing business with the Chicago Tribune, Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. Years later, Rand and McNally established Rand McNally & Co after purchasing the Tribune's printing business. They focused mainly on printing tickets, complete railroad guides and timetables for the booming railroad industry around the city. What made the company successful was the detailed maps of roadways, along with directions to certain places. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways and erected many of the roadside highway signs that have been adopted by state and federal highway authorities. The company is still making and updating the world maps that are looked at every day.
1857 · The State Capital moves to Des Moines
The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
Name Meaning
English: status name for a steward or official, from Middle English bailli ‘manager, administrator’ (Old French baillis, from Late Latin baiulivus, an adjectival derivative of baiulus ‘attendant, carrier, porter’).
English: habitational name from Bailey in Little Mitton, Lancashire, named with Old English beg ‘berry’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
English: occasionally a topographic name for someone who lived by the outer wall of a castle, from Middle English (Old French) bailli ‘outer courtyard of a castle’ (Old French bail(le) ‘enclosure’, a derivative of bailer ‘to enclose’). This term became a placename in its own right, denoting a district beside a fortification or wall, as in the case of the Old Bailey in London, which formed part of the early medieval outer wall of the city.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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