When Absalom Cunningham was born on 28 September 1860, in McLean, Illinois, United States, his father, John McGee Cunningham, was 32 and his mother, Elizabeth Buxton, was 32. He married Nancy Jane "Jennie" Ellis on 29 December 1880, in DeWitt, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in De Witt, DeWitt, Illinois, United States in 1870 and Cook Township, Sac, Iowa, United States for about 10 years. He died on 23 January 1948, in Sac City, Sac, Iowa, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Early, Sac, Iowa, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1877: Sac, Iowa, United States
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.
Scottish: habitational name from the province of Cunningham in Ayrshire, first recorded in 1153 in the form Cunegan, a Celtic name of uncertain origin. The spellings in -ham, first recorded in 1180, and in -ynghame, first recorded in 1227, represent a gradual assimilation to the English placename element -ingham.
Irish: surname adopted from Gaelic Ó Cuinneagáin ‘descendant of Cuinneagán’, a personal name from a double diminutive of the Old Irish personal name Conn meaning ‘leader, chief’. This name is also adopted for Ó Connacháin, a variant of Ó Connagáin ‘descendant of Connagán’, from a diminutive of the personal name Conn.
History: A family of this name (see 1 above) can be traced back to Wernebald de Cunynghame, who was granted the manor of Cunningham by Hugh de Morville in the early 12th century.
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