Brief Life History of Margaret
When Margaret Cooper was born on 6 February 1862, in Viele, Lee, Iowa, United States, her father, Nelson Cooper, was 33 and her mother, Mary Ann Simpson, was 28. She married Charles Franklin Burnham Sr on 25 December 1890, in Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Jefferson Township, Lee, Iowa, United States in 1870. She died on 2 April 1939, in Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Aspen Grove Cemetery, Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa, United States.
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- Margrett Cooper in household of Nelson Cooper, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Catherine "Tee" Cooper - Published information: birth-name: Margaret Catherine Cooper
- Margaret Or Maggie T. Cooper, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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: occupational name for a maker and repairer of wooden vessels such as barrels, tubs, buckets, casks, and vats, from Middle English couper, cowper (apparently from Middle Dutch kūper, a derivative of kūp ‘tub, container’, which was borrowed independently into English as coop). The prevalence of the surname, its cognates, and equivalents bears witness to the fact that this was one of the chief specialist trades in the Middle Ages throughout Europe. In North America, the English surname has absorbed some cases of like-sounding cognates from other languages, for example Dutch Kuiper .
Americanized form of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Kupfer and Kupper (see Kuper ).
Dutch: occupational name for a buyer or merchant, Middle Dutch coper.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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