When Mary A Duffus was born in February 1868, in Iowa, United States, her father, Alexander Duffus, was 49 and her mother, Elisabeth Jane Henderson, was 44. She married James Novak on 27 June 1895, in Malcom, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States. She lived in Malcom Township, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Malcom, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States for about 20 years.
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Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Scottish: habitational name from a place in Morayshire called Duffus.
English: nickname or topographic name from Middle English douvehous, duffous ‘dovecote’, for someone who lived by or worked in a dovehouse. It is possible that the English form of this name died out in or after the medieval period.
Possibly also an Americanized form of Dutch Duffhues or Duifhuis: topographic or habitational name referring to a house or a farm distinguished by a dovecot (compare 2 above) and named so.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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