Brief Life History of Burwell E
When Burwell E Hall was born on 13 October 1879, in Maitland, Holt, Missouri, United States, his father, Monterey Hall, was 32 and his mother, Mary Jane Mills, was 22. He married Grace M Durfey on 17 January 1906, in Essex, Page, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Farragut, Fremont, Iowa, United States in 1940 and Union, Humboldt, California, United States for about 1 years. He registered for military service in 1903. He died on 8 October 1958, in Eureka, Humboldt, California, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Arcata, Humboldt, California, United States.
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- Bert E Hall, "United States 1950 Census"
- Burwell E Hall, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Bert E Hall, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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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
English, Scottish, Irish, German, Norwegian, and Danish: from Middle English hall (Old English heall), Middle High German halle, Old Norse hǫll all meaning ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a hall or an occupational name for a servant employed at a hall. In some cases it may be a habitational name from any of the places called with this word, which in some parts of Germany and Austria in the Middle Ages also denoted a salt mine. Hall is one of the commonest and most widely distributed of English surnames, bearing witness to the importance of the hall as a feature of the medieval village. The English surname has been established in Ireland since the 14th century, and, according to MacLysaght, has become numerous in Ulster since the 17th century.
Swedish: ornamental or topographic name from hall ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), or a habitational name from a placename containing the element hall ‘rock’ (from Old Norse hallr).
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 何 and 賀, see He 1 and 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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