When John Henry Richmond was born on 17 April 1854, in Worth, Missouri, United States, his father, John Henry Richmond, was 26 and his mother, Catherine Fugate, was 25. He married Clarissa Elizabeth Stanton on 4 July 1877, in Worth, Worth, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Gentry, Missouri, United States in 1860 and Missouri, United States in 1870. He died on 11 March 1922, in Hamburg, Fremont, Iowa, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Hamburg, Germany.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1861: Worth, Missouri, United States
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.
habitational name from Richmond (North Yorkshire). The placename was probably transferred after the Norman Conquest from any of numerous places in France named with Old French riche ‘mighty, strong’ + munt, mont ‘mountain, hill’. Richmond in southwest London received this name only in the reign of Henry VII, in honor of the king, who had been Earl of Richmond until he came to the throne, and is unlikely to be the source of this surname.
occasionally a variant of Richman , with excrescent -d. The two names were probably often confused.
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