Brief Life History of William Edward
When William Edward Parker was born on 13 July 1869, in Vernon, Missouri, United States, his father, Oscar Dallas Parker Sr., was 24 and his mother, Sarah Jane Simpson, was 25. He married Amanda Ann Gideon on 12 December 1889, in Bloomfield, Davis, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Van Buren, Jackson, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Village Township, Van Buren, Iowa, United States in 1930. He died on 19 February 1959, in Bloomfield, Davis, Iowa, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Davis, Iowa, United States.
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- William Parker in household of Oscar Parker, "United States Census, 1870"
- Edward Parker, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Wm Edward Parker, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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World Events (8)
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English parker ‘park-keeper’ (Old French parquier, parchier), an officer employed to look after deer and other game in a hunting park (see Park 1). This surname is also very common among African Americans. It has also been recorded since medieval times in Ireland.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish names.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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