When John Willis Nuzum was born in December 1862, in Delaware, Iowa, United States, his father, Jesse Frost Nuzum, was 41 and his mother, Elezabeth Fonner, was 39. He married Rachel A “Lillie” Terry on 3 April 1889, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Jackson Township, Warren, Iowa, United States for about 10 years and Allen, Harrison, Iowa, United States in 1900. He died on 30 December 1924, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Walnut Hill Cemetery, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Irish: variant of Newsome . This form of the surname is no longer found in Ireland.
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