Brief Life History of Amanda J.
When Amanda J. Cleveland was born on 1 December 1863, in Wapello, Louisa, Iowa, United States, her father, Alexander Dennison Cleveland, was 31 and her mother, Amanda Jane Spiver, was 28. She married Frank D. Lyon on 17 December 1890, in Keokuk, Lee, Iowa, United States. She lived in Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Hamilton, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1900. She died on 13 June 1940, in Macomb, McDonough, Illinois, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Macomb, McDonough, Illinois, United States.
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- Amanda Lyon in household of Frank Lyon, "United States Census, 1930"
- Amanda J. Lyon, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Jennie A. Cleveland, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1867 · The Burtis Opera House
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.
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.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places in Devon, Essex, or the North Yorkshire, formed from the genitive plural (clifa) of Old English clif ‘bank, slope’ + land ‘land’.
Americanized form (and a rare Norwegian variant) of Norwegian Kleveland or its variant Kleiveland, and also of Kleven or its variant Kleiven.
History: Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), 22nd and 24th president of the US, was the fifth child of a country Presbyterian clergyman. His father, Richard Falley Cleveland, a graduate of Yale College and of the theological seminary at Princeton, was descended from Moses Cleaveland who arrived in MA in 1635.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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