Brief Life History of Dora Mary E.
When Dora Mary E. Rader was born on 21 September 1878, in Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa, United States, her father, Sidney Joseph Rader, was 41 and her mother, Caroline Louisa Stocker, was 36. She married William Benedict Gruwell on 23 February 1898, in Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Wapello, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Keokuk Township, Wapello, Iowa, United States in 1930. She died on 9 August 1955, at the age of 76, and was buried in McIntire Cemetery, Ottumwa Junction, Center Township, Wapello, Iowa, United States.
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- Dora Grewell, "Iowa State Census, 1925"
- Dora Rader, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Dora Gruwell in entry for William Gruwell, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
1884 · There is now a Capital Building
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.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
German (also Räder): occupational name for a wheelwright, from an agent derivative of Middle High German rat ‘wheel’.
German (Räder): metonymic occupational name for a flour sifter or mill hand, from Middle High German reder ‘sieve’.
German: occasionally an occupational name from Middle Low German rader ‘adviser’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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