Brief Life History of George Leck
When George Leck Campbell was born on 1 May 1876, in Decatur City, Decatur, Iowa, United States, his father, John Milton Campbell, was 26 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Sloan, was 31. He married Margaret J. Donaldson on 24 December 1906, in Decatur City, Decatur, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Decatur, Iowa, United States in 1895 and Rawles Township, Mills, Iowa, United States in 1930. He died on 10 February 1962, in Glenwood, Mills, Iowa, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Glenwood, Mills, Iowa, United States.
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- George E Campbell, "United States Census, 1930"
- Geo L Campbell, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- George Campbell in entry for Genevieve Campbell, "Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939"
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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.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked, bent’ + beul ‘mouth’. As a result of folk etymology, the surname was often represented in Latin documents as de bello campo ‘of the fair field’, which led to the name sometimes being ‘translated’ into Anglo-Norman French as Beauchamp .
Irish (North Armagh): adopted for Gaelic Mac Cathmhaoil ‘son of Cathmhaol’ (literally ‘battle chief’): see Caulfield and Cowell .
English: variant of Camel , under the influence of the Scottish name (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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