When Ada Isabella Hesselgrave was born on 4 July 1861, in West Point, Columbia, Wisconsin, United States, her father, David Hesselgrave, was 39 and her mother, Hannah Ann Fivored Armour, was 23. She married Scott Winfield Nutting on 16 October 1883, in West Point, Columbia, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Wisconsin, United States in 1870 and Eldora, Hardin, Iowa, United States in 1920. She died on 8 February 1936, in Frankfort, Will, Illinois, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Frankfort, Will, Illinois, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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 (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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