When Rosa “Rosie” Ella Peterson was born on 18 August 1883, in Onawa, Monona, Iowa, United States, her father, Albert Peterson, was 28 and her mother, Murcy Hall, was 19. She married Benjamin Franklin Bothwell on 1 August 1899, in Onawa, Monona, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Sioux Township, Monona, Iowa, United States in 1910. She died on 2 August 1915, in Little Sioux, Harrison, Iowa, United States, at the age of 31, and was buried in Little Sioux Cemetery, Little Sioux, Harrison, Iowa, United States.
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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.
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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.
English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
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