Brief Life History of Arthur D
When Arthur D Stull was born on 6 April 1867, in Brooklyn, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States, his father, David Stull, was 36 and his mother, Celia Burch Cady, was 21.
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- Arthur D Stull in household of David D Stull, "Iowa State Census, 1885"
- Arthur Stull in household of David B Stull, "United States Census, 1880"
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World Events (8)
1868 · Impeach the President!
Caused by many crimes and breaking the Tenure of Office Act, Many Senators and House Representatives became angry with President Johnson and began discussions of his Impeachment. After a special session of Congress, the Articles of Impeachment were approved by the House and then the Senate. Making Andrew Johnson the first President to be Impeached.
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.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
German: possibly a variant of Stuhl, a metonymic occupational name for a furniture maker, Middle High German stuol ‘chair’, or a topographic name from the same word in the transferred sense ‘area of raised land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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