When William Grant Pruitt was born on 21 October 1865, in Indiana, United States, his father, Jacob Pruitt, was 36 and his mother, Maryann E. Williams, was 35. He married Georgia Alice Cleaver on 25 December 1885, in Page, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Atchison Township, Nodaway, Missouri, United States in 1920 and Hopkins, Nodaway, Missouri, United States in 1930. He died on 6 November 1937, in Missouri, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Clearmont, Nodaway, Missouri, 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.
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.
English (Lanarkshire, Scotland): variant of Prewitt . This surname is very rare in Britain.
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