When Allice N Hamlin was born in 1865, in Iowa, United States, her father, Charles H Hamlin, was 30 and her mother, Hannah C Workman, was 18. She lived in Leavenworth, Kansas, United States in 1875 and Reno, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States in 1880.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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.
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 and Irish: of Norman origin, from the Norman French and Middle English personal name Hamelin, a double diminutive of Hamo (see Hammond ).
French: variant of Hamelin and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Americanized form of Finnish Hämäläinen (see Hamalainen ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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