When Anna May Stice was born on 17 May 1881, in Lovilia, Monroe, Iowa, United States, her father, Rev William Morgan Stice, was 33 and her mother, Cynthia Ann Roupe, was 32. She married Burl Hall Yerkes on 5 December 1900, in Vinton, Benton, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States in 1930 and Akron, Summit, Ohio, United States in 1950. She died on 15 July 1962, in Mount Vernon, Knox, Ohio, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Mount Vernon, Knox, Ohio, United States.
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A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
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.
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
variant of Anne , in common use as a given name in most European languages. Among people with a classical education, it has from time to time been associated with Virgil's Aeneid, where it is borne by the sister of Dido , Queen of Carthage. This Phoenician name may ultimately be of Semitic origin, and thus related to the biblical Anne. However, the connection, if it exists, is indirect rather than direct.
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