When Nancy Catherine Campbell was born on 13 March 1856, in Palo Alto, Iowa, United States, her father, George Thomas Jefferson Campbell, was 23 and her mother, Mary Jane Carter, was 22. She married William Leroy Halstead on 14 August 1881, in West Bend, Palo Alto, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Buhl, Twin Falls, Idaho, United States in 1910 and Ponca Township, Lincoln, Oklahoma, United States in 1920. She died on 15 March 1940, in Avery, Lincoln, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Avery, Lincoln, Oklahoma, United States.
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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.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked, bent’ + beul ‘mouth’. As a result of folk etymology, the surname was often represented in Latin documents as de bello campo ‘of the fair field’, which led to the name sometimes being ‘translated’ into Anglo-Norman French as Beauchamp .
Irish (North Armagh): adopted for Gaelic Mac Cathmhaoil ‘son of Cathmhaol’ (literally ‘battle chief’): see Caulfield and Cowell .
English: variant of Camel , under the influence of the Scottish name (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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