When Delaremy Lawrence McCracken was born on 30 April 1858, in Denmark, Lee, Iowa, United States, his father, Lemuel Lawrence McCracken, was 27 and his mother, Sarah Catherine Dufur, was 21. He married Nancy Jane Judy on 29 May 1881, in Lee, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Denmark Township, Lee, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Cedar Township, Lee, Iowa, United States in 1925. He died on 28 March 1942, in Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Denmark, Lee, Iowa, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The Burtis Opera House opened in Davenport and could easily hold an audience of 1,600. It was a widely used facility and Mark Twain filled the house when he spoke on tour in 1869. It was also used to house Susan B. Anthony when she lectured on the woman's right to vote. The Quad City Symphony Orchestra played its first concert as the new Tri-City Symphony in the Opera House. An arsonist set fire to the building on the evening of April 26, 1921, and the building was severely destroyed. The building was rebuilt but was no longer used as an opera house.
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.
Irish (northern) and Scottish (Galloway): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Reachtain, a variant of Mac Neachtain (see McNaughton ), with the replacement of n by r in the cluster cn that is characteristic of Ulster Irish and Scottish Gaelic. The -ck- in the spelling here is a result of the Scottish Gaelic pronunciation of cht.
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