Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel Highley was born on 26 June 1878, in Atlantic, Cass, Iowa, United States, his father, Henry C. Highley, was 38 and his mother, Emily W Goodwin, was 35. He lived in Cass Township, Cass, Iowa, United States in 1895 and Atlantic Township, Cass, Iowa, United States in 1900. He died on 31 August 1923, at the age of 45, and was buried in Atlantic, Cass, Iowa, United States.
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- Saml Highley, "Iowa State Census, 1895"
- Legacy NFS Source: Samuel Highley - Government record: Census record: birth: June 1878; Atlantic, Cass, Iowa, United States
- Samuel Henry Highley, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
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 (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from High Lee in Luddenden Foot (Yorkshire). This is the main source of the name, although in some instances the source may be another place of similar name, such as High Legh (Cheshire). The Yorkshire placename probably derives from Old English hygel ‘hillock’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, while the Cheshire placename derives from Old English lēah, with later addition of Middle English heigh ‘high’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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