When Edward M. Trask was born on 7 February 1871, in Independence, Buchanan, Iowa, United States, his father, Frank Stone Trask, was 23 and his mother, Sarah Isabella Pulker, was 18. He married Margaret Elizabeth Mudd on 10 October 1890. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in St. Charles Township, Saint Charles, Missouri, United States in 1900 and St. Charles, Saint Charles, Missouri, United States for about 20 years. He died on 29 August 1956, in Warrenton, Warren, Missouri, United States, at the age of 85.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
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.
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.
English (Somerset): variant of Thirsk, a habitational name for someone from Thirsk in Yorkshire, named from an unattested Old Norse word, thresk ‘marsh’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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