When Ziba Allen Marshall was born in July 1864, in Wapello, Iowa, United States, his father, Ralph Marshall, was 52 and his mother, Mary Helm, was 39. He married Hannah Rozell Parks on 31 December 1890, in Wapello, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Richland Township, Wapello, Iowa, United States for about 40 years. He died about 1927, in Wapello, Iowa, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Kirkville, Wapello, Iowa, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
English: usually an occupational name ‘farrier’, occasionally a status name ‘chief official of a royal household or court; a high officer of state’, from Middle English mareshal and Old French maresc(h)al. An even wider range of meanings is found in some other languages: compare for example Polish Marszałek (see Marszalek ). This name has been established in Ireland since the 13th century. It is also borne by Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
Americanized form of German Marschall .
Americanized form of French Mercier .
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