When Thomas Williams was born on 12 September 1865, in Houghton, Michigan, United States, his father, William M. Williams, was 44 and his mother, Jane Brooks, was 37. He married Ida May Bennett on 20 May 1890, in Webster, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Palo Alto, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Goewey Township, Osceola, Iowa, United States in 1930. He died on 18 April 1935, in West Bend, Palo Alto, Iowa, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in City Cemetery, Palo Alto, Iowa, 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.
1880: 1,783 1890: 1,772 1900: 4,050 1910: 8,981 1920: 7,527 1930: 5,795 1940: 5,554 1950: 5,223 1960: 5,022 1970: 4,820 1980: 5,122 1990: 4,547 2000: 4,323 2010: 4,634
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: variant of William , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This form of the surname is also common in Wales. In North America, this surname has also absorbed some cognates from other languages, such as Dutch Willems . Williams is the third most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
History: This surname was brought to North America from southern England and Wales independently by many different bearers from the 17th century onward. Roger Williams, born in London in 1603, came to MA in 1630, but the clergyman was banished from the colony for his criticism of the Puritan government; he fled to RI and founded Providence.
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