When Addison Grant Kingsbury was born on 1 November 1869, in Winnebago, Illinois, United States, his father, Leland Kingsbury, was 35 and his mother, Emma Eunice Banks, was 39. He married Laura Beatrice Barbour on 13 October 1892, in Grant Township, Story, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Story, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Grant Township, Story, Iowa, United States for about 20 years. He died on 6 December 1958, in Nevada, Story, Iowa, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Ames, Story, Iowa, United States.
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Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
Also known as the Chicago World's Fair, The Exposition was held to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World. The centerpiece of the Fair was a large water pool that represented Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic to the Americas. The Fair had a profound effect on new architecture designs, sanitation advancement, and the arts. The Fairgrounds were given the nickname the White City due to its lavish paint and materials used to constuct it. Over 27 million people attended the fair during its six-month of operation. Among many of the invetions exhibited there was the first Ferris wheel built to rival the Eiffel Tower in France.
English: habitational name from any of several places, for example in northwest London (formerly Middlesex), Somerset, Hertfordshire and Warwickshire. These are mostly named in Old English from Old English cing ‘king’ (genitive cinges) + burg ‘fortress’. The Warwicks placename derives from the Old English personal name Cyne (genitive Cynes) + Old English burg.
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