Brief Life History of Clara Elizabeth
When Clara Elizabeth Lamb was born on 25 July 1859, in Charleston, Lee, Iowa, United States, her father, Smith Lamb, was 26 and her mother, Martha Jane Cox, was 24. She married Johann Adam Hopp on 13 March 1881, in Lee, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Charleston Township, Lee, Iowa, United States for about 40 years and Keokuk, Lee, Iowa, United States in 1925. She died on 21 March 1925, in Montrose, Lee, Iowa, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Montrose, Lee, Iowa, United States.
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- Clare Hopp, "Iowa State Census, 1895"
- Miss Clara E. Lamb, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Clara E Lamb, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · The Burtis Opera House
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.
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.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Lamb, a pet form of Lambert .
English: nickname for a meek and inoffensive person, from Middle English lamb, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of lambs. See also Lamm .
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of the warrior’, formerly Anglicized as O'Loan (see Lane 3). MacLysaght comments: "The form Lamb(e), which results from a more than usually absurd pseudo-translation (uan ‘lamb’), is now much more numerous than O'Loan itself.".
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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