When Florence Helen Hesselgrave was born on 19 September 1865, in West Point, Columbia, Wisconsin, United States, her father, David Hesselgrave, was 43 and her mother, Hannah Ann Fivored Armour, was 28. She married Gurden Dolph on 19 June 1886, in Eldora, Hardin, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin, United States in 1910 and Platte, Wyoming, United States in 1920. She died on 6 January 1945, in Casper, Natrona, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin, United States.
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The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
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.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from a lost place called Hesselgreave in Yorkshire or from Hazel Grove in North Yorkshire, or else a topographic name for a person who lived in or near a place where hazels grew, from Old English hæsel, Old Norse hesli ‘hazel’ + OE grǣfe ‘grove, thicket’. But the North Yorkshire placename also contains a Middle English form of Old Norse gryfja ‘hole, pit’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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