Brief Life History of Ira Benton
When Ira Benton Dow was born on 12 November 1854, in Iowa, United States, his father, William Wallace Dow, was 38 and his mother, Sally Metcalf, was 34. He married Phoebe Lillian Rice on 14 February 1877, in Lee, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Fort Madison, Lee, Iowa, United States in 1915 and Lee, Iowa, United States in 1925. He registered for military service in 1862. He died on 12 April 1929, in Iowa, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Denmark, Lee, Iowa, United States.
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- Ira B Dow, "Iowa State Census, 1925"
- Ira B. Dow, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Ira B Dow, "Iowa, Records of Persons Subject to Military Duty, 1862-1910"
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1857 · The State Capital moves to Des Moines
The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic dubh ‘black’ (see Duff ).
English: from the Middle English personal name Dow, a rhyming pet form of Row(e), representing a common pronunciation of Rolf, a side form of Ralph. See Rolfe and compare Daw , Dawson , and Dowson . Alternatively, in East Anglia the name may be a variant of Dove .
Americanized form of Dutch Douw: from the personal name Douwe, from Frisian dou ‘pigeon’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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