Brief Life History of Alice Miram
When Alice Miram Bissell was born on 16 June 1877, in Breckenridge, Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, Levi Parsons Bisel Jr., was 41 and her mother, Lydia Ann Morgan, was 36. She married Charles Edmond Whittenberg on 4 June 1905, in Taloga, Dewey, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Davenport, Scott, Iowa, United States in 1910 and Franklin Township, Marion, Iowa, United States in 1925. She died on 27 May 1947, in Knoxville, Marion, Iowa, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Graceland Cemetery, Knoxville Township, Marion, Iowa, United States.
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- Whittenberg in household of Chas E Whittenberg, "Iowa State Census, 1925"
- Alice M Bisel, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
- Alice Merriman Bisel Whittenberg, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
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.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English buyscel, busshell, bysshell ‘bushel, measure of grain’ (Old French boissel, buissel, of Gaulish origin), hence a metonymic occupational name for a grain merchant or factor, one who measured grain. The name may also have been applied to a maker of vessels designed to hold or measure out a bushel.
Americanized form of German Bissel, of unexplained etymology. The surname Bissel is also found in France (Alsace).
History: The surname Bissell of French (ultimately possibly German; see 2 above) origin is listed in the register of Huguenot ancestors recognized by the Huguenot Society of America.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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