When Gertrude "Gertie" Beekmann was born in March 1859, her father, Jan Wuebben Beckmann, was 25 and her mother, Grietje Hinderks Voogd, was 20. She married Dirk "Dick" Groen on 3 May 1884, in Wheatland Township, Carroll, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. She lived in Jackson Township, Crawford, Iowa, United States for about 10 years and East Boyer Township, Crawford, Iowa, United States in 1925.
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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.
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Some characteristic forenames: German Klaus, Otto, Alois, Dieter, Dietrich, Gerd, Gerda, Gerhard, Gunter, Gunther, Hans, Heino.
North German: topographic name for someone who lived by a stream, a variant of Beck 6, from Low German Beke ‘stream’ + -mann ‘man’. Compare Bachmann .
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name denoting a baker, from older South German beck, West Yiddish bek + Middle High German, Yiddish man (German Mann) ‘man’ (compare Beck 5).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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