When Clyde Wilson Keairnes was born on 5 December 1882, in Grove Township, Shelby, Iowa, United States, his father, Mindred Wilson Keairnes, was 24 and his mother, Laura Augusta Hansen, was 17. He married Bessie Mildred Kuykendall on 22 February 1905, in Harlan, Shelby, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1920 and Missouri Valley, Harrison, Iowa, United States in 1925. He died on 8 August 1968, in Tampa, Hillsborough, Florida, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Tampa, Hillsborough, Florida, United States.
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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.
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
The Industrial Workers of the World was founded after a convention was held by radical trade unionists from all over the United States who opposed the policies of the American Federation of Labor. The IWW opposed the American Federation of Labor's acceptance of capitalism and its refusal to include unskilled workers in craft unions. The convention took place on June 24 and was referred by the workers as the Industrial Congress or the Industrial Union Convention. The IWW aimed to promote worker solidarity in the revolutionary struggle to overthrow the employing class.
Irish: variant of Kearns .
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