When Bessie M. Ohl was born on 14 July 1875, in Tama, Iowa, United States, her father, Byron Starr Ohl, was 27 and her mother, Alice D Alexander, was 19. She married Elba Roy Negly on 8 December 1896, in Marshall, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. She lived in Greencastle Township, Marshall, Iowa, United States in 1930 and Waterloo, Black Hawk, Iowa, United States in 1940. She died on 18 January 1961, in Marshalltown, Marshall, Iowa, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Gilman, Marshall, Iowa, United States.
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The First official World's Fair, was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. 37 Countries provided venues for all to see.
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.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
German: from a short form of a personal name beginning with Ohl-, such as Ohlerich (a variant of Ulrich ), or Ohlbrecht.
North German: nickname for an oldman, from Middle Low German ōl, olde ‘old’.
German: habitational name from any of the places in Westphalia and the Rhineland named Ohl, or a topographic name from Middle Low German ōl ‘meadowland surrounded by water’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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