When Dr Osa McCrary Garvin was born on 10 May 1881, in Floris, Davis, Iowa, United States, his father, William Jasper Garvin, was 46 and his mother, Marietta M McCrary, was 42. He married Elsie Alberta Helton on 14 September 1904, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Boise, Idaho, United States for about 2 years and Soldiers Home Election Precinct, Ada, Idaho, United States in 1940. He died on 25 October 1945, in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Morris Hill Cemetery, Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States.
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A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
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.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gairbhín ‘descendant of Gairbhín’, a personal name derived from a diminutive of garbh ‘rough, cruel’.
English: from the Old English personal name Gārwine, from gār ‘spear’ + wine ‘friend’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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